GR translation: round black iron

[János Székely]

2011/6/22 Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com>

>  P70.1-2  ..., give it all to them or they'll blow it up round black iron
> in the middle of the night bleeding over Polacks in gray caps ...
>
> Is the "round black iron" a big bomb or something else entirely?  Are the
> "Polacks in gray caps" communists?
>
> Sorry for spamming the list with all these questions.  I'm afraid this will
> go on for at least a year, if not longer.
>
>  As the Roxbury scene takes place sometime around 1940, "bleeding over
Polacks",might also be a reference to the issue of entering the war, which
is surely a "commie" thing from this POV. Of course, European Poles not
worth bleeding for are fused here with the stereotypical Polish immigrant.
János
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