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Jamala representing Ukraine performs the song "1944" at the Ericsson Globe on Saturday in Stockholm, Sweden. Another year, another grand spectacle at the Eurovision Song Contest. At Saturday's Grand Final in Stockholm, Sweden, there were pyrotechnics and glitter. There were power ballads. There were light-up dresses and costumes that rendered performers immobile. There were Cypriot rockers performing in smoke-filled cages, and British boy bands. There were capes. (Unfortunately, there were no holograms of wolves – Belarus was eliminated in the Semi-Final.) The annual contest pits more than 40 countries against each other, as the Two-Way has reported in this handy primer. It draws tens of millions more viewers than the Super Bowl. Ukraine's Jamala was the unexpected winner with her haunting song "1944," which recounts the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars under Stalin's orders during World War II. YouTube ...