page_title: Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Deportation of the Crimean Tatars / Modern views and legacy / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Jamala at the winners press conference, right after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2016&#160;in Stockholm. (Help translate this text)
context_page_description: The deportation of the Crimean Tatars or the Sürgünlik was the ethnic cleansing of at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars in 18–20 May 1944 carried out by the Stalinist regime, specifically by Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet state security and secret police, acting on behalf of Joseph Stalin. Within three days, Beria's NKVD used cattle trains to deport mostly women, children, the elderly, even Communists and members of the Red Army, to the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan, several thousand kilometres away. They were one of the ten ethnicities who were encompassed by Stalin's policy of population transfer in the Soviet Union.
  The deportation officially was intended as collective punishment for the perceived collaboration of some Crimean Tatars with Nazi Germany, in spite of hostile attitudes to Crimean Tatars from the Nazis, who considered Crimean Tatars to be "racially inferior" and "Mongol sub-humanity"; modern sources theorize that the deportation was part of the Soviet plan to gain access to the Dardanelles and acquire territory in Turkey where the Tatars had ethnic kinsmen.
context_section_description: In 2008, Lily Hyde, a British journalist living in Ukraine, published a novel titled Dreamland that revolves around a Crimean Tatar family return to their homeland in the 1990s. The story is told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl who moves from Uzbekistan to a demolished village with her parents, brother, and grandfather. Her grandfather tells her stories about the heroes and victims among the Crimean Tatars.
  The 2013 Ukrainian Crimean Tatar-language film Haytarma portrays the experience of Crimean Tatar flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union Amet-khan Sultan during the 1944 deportations.
  In 2015 Christina Paschyn released the documentary film A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars in a Ukrainian–Qatari co-production. It depicts the history of the Crimean Tatars from 1783 up until 2014, with a special emphasis on the 1944 mass deportation.
  At the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden, the Ukrainian Crimean Tatar singer Jamala performed the song 1944, which refers to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in that year. Jamala an ethnic Crimean Tartar born in exile in Kyrgyzstan, dedicated the song to her deported great-grandmother. She became the first Crimean Tatar to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest and also the first to perform with a song with lyrics in her language. She won the event, becoming the second Ukrainian artist to win the event.
caption: Jamala dedicated her 2016 Eurovision winning song 1944 to the deported Crimean Tatars.
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