Question
Control and his team shown singing Russian national anthem along with a person with Lenin mask on. His team was working for British Intellingence in shortcut called Circus.
I didn't understand why are they doing this?
Answer
That’s when the show-stopper comes on, the office Santa (I’m fairly sure that’s a drunk Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds), aka Soldier), slovenly dressed, adorned with a Lenin mask, and demanding his music, the State Anthem of the Soviet Union. The idea that the MI-6 office Christmas party would engage in a group singalong of their primary’s enemy’s national song (might this have come from somebody’s memoir? or from le Carré?) is just wickedly stinging, a cunning little piece of evidence of the service’s deep cynicism, the cynicism that both makes them highly effective at analysis and agent recruitment (nobody recruits an agent like the British, ask anybody in intelligence—they’re rivaled only by the Cubans, no lie) and renders them vulnerable to would-be penetrating moles of the right class and ilk.
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