Winn vietnam 2011 02 28

An armed policeman stands guard next to a portrait of late president Ho Chi Minh (R), founder of today's communist Vietnam, and Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin (L), outside the venue of the current 11th national congress of the Vietnam Communist Party (VCP) in Hanoi on January 17, 2011. Vietnam's ruling communists met on January 17 to choose a new batch of leaders who are expected to oversee a drive to modernise the economy while refusing to abandon the country's authoritarian political system.