Ukrainian singer Jamala has won the 61st Eurovision Song Contest with “1944”. The song is about the deportations of Tatars from Crimea under Joseph Stalin, IPN reports.

Jamala is herself a Crimean Tatar who has not been home since shortly after Russia’s 2014 annexation of the peninsula. Her parents and extended family still live there. She dedicated her song to her great grandmother, who was forced to leave along with a quarter of a million Tatars.

This year’s competition used a new voting system, under which points were awarded partly by juries from 42 participating countries and partly by a public telephone vote.

Australia’s Dami Im topped the scoreboard with 320 points at the end of the jury stage, while Ukraine gained 211 points. The public gave most of the votes to Russia’s Sergey Lazarev, followed by Ukraine’s Jamala. But the phone voters ultimately swung things Ukraine’s way. Australia finished second, while Russia was third.

The show was broadcast live for the first time in the United States too.

Moldova’s representative this year Lidia Isac failed to qualify for the contest’s final.