"It's my try to give strong voice to my homeland, to Crimea. The centuries of the Russian Empire, then Soviet Union, now Russia - they did a lot of propaganda to shut us up. Then they told the whole world we did not exist."
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Eurovision 2023: Jamala on rescuing Crimean folk songs from Russian invasion bbc.com on 11.05.2023
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