I am so extremely proud of Jamala. She poured her heart and soul into that song. It’s about the mass genocide and deportation of Crimean tartars by Stalin during the Second World War, in which her great-grandmother’s daughters died on board of a freight truck. She gave an emotional performance and made a political statement. I know that Eurovision isn’t supposed to be about politics, but what do you expect? Ukraine literally has “civil” war going on right at this moment. Was she supposed to sing of happy things while there are people dying in Ukraine? It was about time Europe acknowledged this and for Russia to stop denying the things it has done to Ukraine.
