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"1944" is a song performed by Ukrainian singer Jamala (Ukrainian: Джамала). It represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 and won with a total of 534 points. The lyrics for "1944" concern the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, in the 1940s, by the Soviet Union at the hands of Joseph Stalin. Jamala was particularly inspired by the story of her great-grandmother Nazylkhan, who was in her mid-20s when she and her five children were deported to barren Central Asia.