Sándor Garbai
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Sándor Garbai (27 March 1879 - 7 November 1947) was a Hungarian socialist politician. He came to power as prime minister in March 1919 in alliance with the Communists, and proclaimed a Soviet Republic. Although Garbai remained titular head of the regime for most of its length, practical authority was in the hands of Communist foreign minister Béla Kun. According to the Anti-Semitic joke of the time, the revolution's Jewish leaders took the gentile Garbai in so that they would have somebody to sign the death sentences on Saturdays.
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| Preceded by Mihály Károlyi |
Chairman of the Hungarian Central Executive Council 1919 |
Succeeded by Gyula Peidl |
| Preceded by Dénes Berinkey |
Prime Minister of Hungary 1919 |
Succeeded by Antal Dovcsák |
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