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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Yesim Dikmen

Ukraine– Russia conflict: Life echoes art for Ukraine’s Eurovision winner Jamala

Six years ago, Ukrainian singer Jamala conquered Europe with a song about Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s deportation of hundreds of thousands of people from her Black Sea homeland of Crimea, in World War Two.

“When strangers are coming, they come to your house. They kill you all and say ‘We’re not guilty’,” she sang in a sombre anthem that was the surprise 2016 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest.

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