Letter writer Jared Reinmuth criticizes The Post for its “attack on Paul Robeson, the son of a former slave who grew up to be one of the world’s greatest talents and a revered man of his time” (“Washington ‘Red Square’ Park,” Letters, March 27).

Robeson was, indeed, a “revered man,” especially by the mass murderers and slavemasters whom he so slavishly served.

In 1936, at the outset of Stalin’s murderous purges and show trials, Robeson attacked the defendants and declared that “anyone who lifted his hand against the Soviet Union deserved to be shot.”

Can Reinmuth explain how the “son of a former slave” could become one of the greatest apologists and defenders of the gulag slave state? Likewise, this great man was a moral coward who betrayed his own friends.

Is this just 1950s-style paranoia, Reinmuth? And is Holocaust denial just 1940s-style paranoia?

James Longo
Livingston, N.J.