I don’t want to discuss the musical merits of who should have
won the recent Eurovision amateur song contest in Stockholm. It’s
brazenly clear that the Ukrainian ethnic Tatar Jamala won in a rigged
contest to make a political intervention. As she subsequently openly
admitted, it was between the actions of Stalin in World War II against
Crimean Tatars and the actions of Moscow in 2014 in Crimea. The song of
Jamala was blatantly political and by Eurovision rules ought to be
grounds to strip her of the title regardless of her singing talent or
lack of same. What is conspicuously absent from Western media coverage
in what is seen by many as a blatant politicization of the music
festival is who those 1944 Crimean Tatars were fighting in the mourning
song of Jamala. The answer may surprise some. http://journal-neo.org/2016/05/28/jamala-won-singing-paean-to-tatar-ss-nazis/
