Now, after the collapse of communism, the Christian-conservative government paints as its main enemy the multicultural consumerist liberal democracy for which today's western Europe stands.
But in reality there is no balance here: the equation of fascism and communism secretly privileges fascism.
The prime minister traced Hungary's freedom fight through the great revolutions of 1848 against Vienna, of 1956 against Soviet communism, and of 1989 when he played a starring role as a young student anti-communist leader.
Kasparov had praise, however, for his opponent – who was seen during their encounters in the early 1980s as the face of Soviet communism.
Both instinctively understood the ruinous consequences of communism, socialism and excessive government regulation.
Christian Democrats could present themselves as antitotalitarians par excellence: they were a bulwark against godless communism, but also argued that fascism had really been a form of "materialism", making their own spiritualism the obvious antidote to a return of the past.
He compares marriage to communism, in that it's "an ideology that's been dreamed up by someone as being fit for human beings without them having any knowledge of what the human animal is actually like, what it needs, what it can and can't do".
Born in Czechoslovakia, he became a naturalised Englishman after the communist coup d'etat of 1948, and taught at British universities for 40 years before he retired to Prague after the fall of communism in 1989.
In 1956, we said we have to crack, we have to break the wheels of communism and we were proven right," he declared.
"The point is, what was true in the good old bad old days of communism is still true in the case of the Belarusian dictatorship.
We're taught at such an early age to be against communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is.
