And, similarly, it is odd that the Slovak libertarian party is labeled “extreme right-wing” seeming to rule out the possibility of including it in a left coalition giving it control of civil liberties.

Well, in Slovakia "left-wing" means communists, so the civil liberties are a right-wing topic here. The current "left-wing" topic is how we need to hire hundreds of new policemen, to protect us from the immigrant hordes.

I think that the communists in the post-communist countries are psychologically an equivalent of the religious right in the countries that didn't have communism. That's another part of what makes speaking about "left" and "right" so confusing.