Tama Matheson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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It's pleasures of the pleasures of an inquisition.
It's a sour, sadistic world that loves to hate and judge and punish.
And in that world...
Someone who is different is reviled and needs to be punished.
I was aware of it, and a Puktin who was very, very open about his sexuality said... And this is a boy of 14, 15?
Yes, he said, don't be afraid of it, Piotr.
Well, I think they thought, and I thought so too, that it was a youthful fad that would one day blow away on the wind.
Of course, and I think people were a little more freely emotional with each other in those days, boys in particular, but I was also aware that
that regardless of the fact that it felt natural, it could also very easily be reviled.
There were some injunctions against it at the school, which were often ignored.
And curiously, it was...
It was accepted amongst the aristocracy in Russia.
But how could it not be?
If it wasn't, you'd have to arrest two-thirds of Russia's oligarchy.
But for ordinary men such as myself, it was punishable by public disgrace.
The loss of civil rights and exile to Siberia.
So it was not an idle threat.
Yes.
By public disgrace, loss of civil rights and exile to Siberia.
So you could be arrested.
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