1 year ago18 points(+0/-0/+18Score on mirror)1 child
What most people don't know about Vlad the Impaler is that he and other in Eastern Europe and the Baltics were the last line of defense against the Ottoman Turks, who had been trying to invade and conquer Europe for decades but had been repelled without notable gains of territory except for some regions in the Baltics. Vlad's favored method of displaying the bodies of those his armies slaughtered was to impale their entire body from ass to head and stand them upright for any new invading armies to see. This was a demoralization tactic.
No one mentions that he wasn't doing this to his own people, but to the filthy invading Islamic Ottomans. Europe owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude.
I had to look that up. Yes, he did. When he strengthened his borders, the Transylvanian Saxons were upset because they used part of that territory for their trade routes. As a result, they wrote and sang vicious songs about him being a tyrant, murderer, and blood drinker.
Your comment got me interested in how the whole vampire legend began. There is, from what I can tell, a decent biography of Vlad III, his life, his defending Wallochia, and how his reputation changed over his life and after. If you're interested, here's a like. The one on Google books is only a preview, and the only epub copy I can find is in French, but this at least shows the table of contents.
1 year ago8 points(+0/-0/+8Score on mirror)1 child
The man knew how to purge. In his first years of rule: Vlad rids Wallachia of people who "pollute" the land. Thieves are impaled, beggars, homeless and the plague-infested are burned alive in barns. In Vlad's opinion, they "depart earthly sufferings for a better afterlife".
No one mentions that he wasn't doing this to his own people, but to the filthy invading Islamic Ottomans. Europe owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude.