Re: Vietnam now.
Just ran across this. Much material on officials in the Vietnamese CP pushing for democratization. And, of coarse, getting the usual Leninist discipline, jail, re-education. [PDF] Loyal Opposition Within the VCP File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... ninth-ranked Politburo member Tran Xuan Bach was sacked ... http://www.vpa-inc.org/conference/pdf/abuza.pdf