text:  and the way even the police in Vietnam suppresses social media, it's all come from him, because he was a man of ideology, a bit like the Ayatollahs in Iran. They were in charge of, how to say, to safeguard the purity of the faith. The people's faith in the party, however, has been waning over the years, due in large part to endemic corruption, something Nguyen Phu Trong recognized as an existential threat to the party's continued rule.