Jamala tells how her 2016 song shone a light on Stalin’s deportations and helped to dispel the myths that Crimea is historically Russian
celebrations in Liverpool to perform 1944 – which she says has taken on a life of its own – and present a new album of songs,Her presence is important not just because she is one of Ukraine’s leading musicians. Her work and her life have given a rare platform to the Crimean Tatars and their long struggle against Russian oppression at a time when their homeland is under unprecedented international scrutiny.
Today about 13% of Crimea’s population are Tatars. As recently as 1850, that figure was about 75%, said Rory Finnin, associate professor of Ukrainian studies at the University of Cambridge. Some of the Crimean Tatars who had spent their youth and middle age in exile were once again forced to leave their homes, this time under political pressure.
. The musicians performing the songs came to Ukraine to record them in 2021, before the full-scale Russian invasion.
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