Was Vlad III Țepeș of Wallachia really as cruel and bloodthirsty as later tradition portrays him? I mean, was he ultimately any more cruel than the average warrior nobleman of his time?"
How do you feel about Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III in relation to him?
He was heroes, close at retaking Byzantium.
He killed many """white""" turkroaches. Other Europeans should consider learning from his methods and kill many more.
>>18535118When I was a kid, I impaled insects on little sticks, so I feel a certain affinity with him.
>>18535118He mostly killed turks and romanians, he was basically a saint
>>18536368Sociopath as the carnivorous song birds
>>18535118Impaling all the brown people at the border as a warning to all the dark hell spawned demons that the land of heaven isn't undefended was awesome and I get why the likely suspects try so hard to slander him.
>>18536369Wasn't he Romanian though? At least by language?
>>18536501Nobody is perfect
>>18536501Romanian nationalism doesn't exist like most states
>>18535118he absolutely hated turks/ottomans on a personal, almost genocidal level- if you know he and his brothers history..but most of his infamy actually comes from german sources because of his killings and suppression of transylvanians
>>18536943The story being he was an inherently racist fuck (on basis of being a judeochristian. A racist religion by itself) and he was butthurt Mehmet II gave his better looking and nonsociopath brother rulership over Romania
>>18535118Overrated because of Bram Stoker.
>>18536369This.
>>18537292Underrated because Castlevania: LoI and LoS
>>18536501There was no one Romanian identity in the 15th century, he was a Wallachian, he impaled many turks but pretty much everything outside of that we only know from German sources that are quite distant from the actual man. The more particular elements of the cruelty of Vlad are probably exaggerated, but conceptually the idea was so cool that people just ran with it, and some people definitely deserve it even its most cruelly imagined forms. Impalement was also not seen as inordinately cruel in that region at the time, nor was it really all that bad of a way to go compared to some of the other creative methods many medieval European states employed. If you want to inspire fear into the heart of a debauched noble class that has an infatuation with children from each successive generation, you can ask them whether the stench of an impaled corpse bothers them. They'll probably get what you mean.
>>18536501He was cumans turkic
