SIR – So Christopher Hindle (Letters, January 4) is a true socialist? Well I beg to differ – Stalin the leader of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and his cronies were, and they did not dictate what information was given to the masses by Moscow radio and the newspaper Pravda, did they, Mr H?

You do come out with indoctrinated tripe.

Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley