Ukraine has decided against using a love song as its entry in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, preferring a tune about Stalin’s mass deportation of the Tatar people in 1944, in a move sure to provoke Russia.
Susana Jamaladinova, who uses the stage name Jamala, was chosen as Ukraine’s entry on Sunday night. She struggled to hold back the tears as she performed the song 1944, whose opening lines are: “When strangers are coming. They come to your house, they kill you all and say ‘We’re not guilty. Not guilty.’”
The song tells the story of Jamala’s great-grandmother, one of the 240,000 …read more
Source: European Voice
