"Kingdom without a king, led by an Admiral without a sea"

Hungary between the World Wars was a place of dark ironies. To explain the above, a recap: -

Like in Russia, first there was an autumn bourgeois revolution. Unlike in Russia, this meant an end of fighting, but as other fighting parties only capitalised on this with territorial grabs, the government weakened. Like in Russia, then came the second revolution by the communists, but unlike in Russia, the Whites, led by an Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, defeated them (followed by White Terror). Then in Paris, as the Austro-Hungarian Empire was cut up, Hungary lost 2/3 of its territory, half its population and about a fourth of its ethnic-Hungarian population.

Now, for the right, there was (is) the national-pathologic "Thesis of the Holy Crown": that the Hungarian royal crown and the Carpathian Basin are divinely connected and indivisible. As this became the official ideology to reinforce claims to the lost territories, when the Admiral installed himself as dictator, he took the title of Governor - and chased away the Habsburg heir, who would be the rightful heair of said crown!...

And the dark irony of the Red-White confrontation was: the Whites capitalised on the Reds' open back just during the latters' (successful) campaigns to regain territory, and then lost much more territory with abysmal dyplomacy in Paris. (The delegation was led by the ex-education-minister responsible for the harshest anti-minority policies...)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}