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Vlad the Impaler was not a "sick and depraved ruler.".. He was actually one of the greatest kings of what is now Romania! He ferociously fought against the Otoman Empire, defending the gate to Christian Europe. And there were many others: Mircea the Elder, Stefan the Great, Michael the Brave. Some of them. Maybe you guys should write an article about the defenders of Europe. For hudreds of years. A big part of history that is very little known.
And if you want some Hollywood spice, in 1600, the otoman people used to scare their children using Mihai the Brave''s name :" behave, go to sleep, or lord Mihai will come!" And if the western Europe had sent their promised troops, to aid Mihai(when he had already reached Adrianopol) and had not betrayed him, it would have been a totally different course of history. Research on that.
To return to this article, Yes, Vlad the Impaler is known for his executions "by impaling", but we are talking about the year circa 1450 and those were "performed" to the most dangerous people, to set an example.
He didn't invent that practice, in fact, in those times, it was a quite common way of punishment.
FYI, check out France, with Louis XVI. He was a fan of that procedure, and many other atrocities. Don't forget that in France, people were still being decapitated in 1977
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Vlad the Impaler was not a "sick and depraved ruler.".. He was actually one of the greatest kings of what is now Romania! He ferociously fought against the Otoman Empire, defending the gate to Christian Europe. And there were many others: Mircea the Elder, Stefan the Great, Michael the Brave. Some of them. Maybe you guys should write an article about the defenders of Europe. For hudreds of years. A big part of history that is very little known.
And if you want some Hollywood spice, in 1600, the otoman people used to scare their children using Mihai the Brave''s name :" behave, go to sleep, or lord Mihai will come!" And if the western Europe had sent their promised troops, to aid Mihai(when he had already reached Adrianopol) and had not betrayed him, it would have been a totally different course of history. Research on that.
To return to this article, Yes, Vlad the Impaler is known for his executions "by impaling", but we are talking about the year circa 1450 and those were "performed" to the most dangerous people, to set an example.
He didn't invent that practice, in fact, in those times, it was a quite common way of punishment.
FYI, check out France, with Louis XVI. He was a fan of that procedure, and many other atrocities. Don't forget that in France, people were still being decapitated in 1977
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