It is worth noting, too, that Fascism and Communism, for all their differences, both hinge on absolute power put into the hands of the State and its supreme leader. Indeed, Timothy Snyder has argued that the Fascism and Communism that ravaged Eastern Europe should be understood as part of the one phenomenon of authoritarian dictatorship.4 Tomáš Halík opines that Communist evils tend to be glossed over due to our haunting and horrified fixation on the evils of Fascism: