Greece has been waiting for Eurovision a long time but on May 20, 2006 they finally hosted it in Athens. 38 countries took part in the 51st Eurovision and the winner was something very unusual, and their home country had been waiting for the victory (or even moderate success) longer than nobody else, since 1961. Serbia-Montenegro's national final ended up in a chaos and in the end they didn't send anyone to Athens but maintained their right to vote. Armenia debuted and by strange coincidence opened the semifinal and finished the final. Dima Bilan, Carola, Anna Vissi and Fabrizio Faniello returned or would return to the contest. The monster rockers from Finland had caused bigger pre-contest mediastorm all over Europe than Dana International or anybody else but still not many believed they would actually win it. Their victory in Finland was already rather troublesome when people were strongly against or strongly for them. Many said things they had to regret later. Finland was under shock when they qualified for the final. A first for Finland. During the final day a rumour spread that Finland had won the semifinal so when the voting started and it was clear after 3 countries Finland would win, the negative spell on Finnish Eurovision was broken forever and a nation was liberated from its inferiority trauma. Lordi won with record number of votes leaving Russia's Dima Bilan far behind halfway of the voting. Finland won and hell didn't freeze over after all.... Lordi went on to become a global success story - at least for a couple of years.Greece has been waiting for Eurovision a long time but on May 20, 2006 they finally hosted it in Athens. 38 countries took part in the 51st Eurovision and the winner was something very unusual, and their home country had been waiting for the victory (or even moderate success) longer than nobody else, since 1961. Serbia-Montenegro's national final ended up in a chaos and in the end they didn't send anyone to Athens but maintained their right to vote. Armenia debuted and by strange coincidence opened the semifinal and finished the final. Dima Bilan, Carola, Anna Vissi and Fabrizio Faniello returned or would return to the contest. The monster rockers from Finland had caused bigger pre-contest mediastorm all over Europe than Dana International or anybody else but still not many believed they would actually win it. Their victory in Finland was already rather troublesome when people were strongly against or strongly for them. Many said things they had to regret later. Finland was under shock when they qualified for the final. A first for Finland. During the final day a rumour spread that Finland had won the semifinal so when the voting started and it was clear after 3 countries Finland would win, the negative spell on Finnish Eurovision was broken forever and a nation was liberated from its inferiority trauma. Lordi won with record number of votes leaving Russia's Dima Bilan far behind halfway of the voting. Finland won and hell didn't freeze over after all.... Lordi went on to become a global success story - at least for a couple of years.
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