Kovpak@lemmygrad.mltoWorld News@lemmygrad.ml•General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam DiesEnglish
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4 months agoRest in peace, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong!
NYTimes is already out there wishing for a “less conservative communist leader”:
Mr. Trong represented a conservative Marxist-Leninist faction within the party, which includes another faction seen as more pragmatic and moderate. His death is likely to raise hopes in the West that a less doctrinaire leader could emerge. Mr. Trong, the only one in the 18-member Politburo who grew up during the Vietnam War, was a generation older than many of his peers.
Reader mode is one of the reasons why I keep going back to Firefox or Firefox forks :). I really love how it just works, and how it also can unlock semi-paywalled (soft-locked) articles.