Ukraine's Jamala takes home Eurovision crown with song about war

[Yahoo News]

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By Daniel Dickson and Martin Lindstam STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ukraine's Jamala struck a surprise gold in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with a song "1944" about war-time deportations of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union in one of the most controversial winners in the competition's history. In a show known down the years for its playfulness and camp, 32-year-old Jamala struck a somber tone with her lyrics about strangers coming to "kill you all", in reference to the forced removal of ethnic Tatars by Josef Stalin during World War 2. Jamala, herself a Tatar, stood on the Stockholm stage singing "you think you are gods" against a blood-red backdrop.

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