Jocelyn answers “What are your conclusions on the ending? ...”

Lorraine Petkus asked this question about Transcription:

What are your conclusions on the ending? Don't want to add spoilers yet.

Jocelyn Mel Much of the story came from the true stories from War memoirs and BBC history. Atkinson conflated the character of Julia with Joan Miller nd another s…moreMuch of the story came from the true stories from War memoirs and BBC history. Atkinson conflated the character of Julia with Joan Miller nd another spy who was a double agent for the Soviets. It's not unbelievable. And I loved this speech about Julia: the little blind mole

you think that the Soviets should be our friends, that we would not have won the war without them and why should they now be denied the same scientific know-how as us? Fuchs’s argument, is it not? Is that why you retrieved the documents for the Soviets? Tell me, Miss Armstrong—the purges, the show trials, the forced-labor camps—they don’t worry you? Somehow I can’t see you working in a rural cooperative or a factory.” “I don’t want to live in Russia.” “That’s your problem, you see, you and Merton and his ilk. You’re intellectual Communists, but you don’t actually want to live beneath its iron thumb.” “It’s called idealism, I suppose.” “No, it’s called betrayal, Miss Armstrong, and I expect it’s exactly the same argument that Godfrey’s informants used. How tediously naïve you are.”(less)

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