Malofsky Letters 3

"There are too many beautiful landscapes, too many orange trees, too many rich, red, earthy fields of clay, cultivated by hands of hardworking peasants for centuries...too many to fall into and be squashed by the muddy, traitorous hands of a dictator, a banker, and a fat priest"

Malofsky works the machine gun with his cousin Bernie
After extolling virtues of Spanish people: "That's why it's absolutely essential to get rid of the bastard Trotskyites who tried to disrupt the unity, and therefore consciously knew that they were playing Franco's game."
-similar to quote in last blog describing Franco's Fifth Column. Malofsky seems to be worried about internal betrayal.

his friend Julius Blackstein married a year before the war. If he had married a year later, he might have already chosen to leave for Spain.
"You know pal, sometimes I wish all this had happened a year ago, when you didn't have all those responsibilities. I know damn well where you'd be- right here with me."

"crush and continue to crush those vile fascist fiends"
hateful, searing language for an otherwise good-natured man

He's part of the George Washington Battalion, which he describes as separate from the Lincoln Batallion. I don't really understand the military structure.

"The other day they sent us a sound truck with phonograph records. Across the hill the machine guns were ratt-tat-ing, and here we were listening to beautiful symphony and snappy jazz records."

One letter is written in another language that has a different alphabet. It looks Russian maybe. What is Malofsky's heritage?

Remember to look up Langston Hughes' The Song of Spain poem

In IWO Magazine article by Sam Pevzner:
"Fine as it is to have cronies, pals and comrades there is no friend that can do what your organization can do for you when it is based on the principle of friendship, of brotherhood."