I think Popa is using the word malshin as a verb rather than a noun. He’s not giving him that name. He is only describing the specific act of going to the government against a portion of mitzvas mila as an act of malshinus. Hence he was (lower case) malshin, as in one who engaged in specific course of behavior. Not (capital) “A Malshin” as in a nasty pejorative. (which may also be true).
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