That is cruel,of course.But when did Vlad did such a thing?That must be something from the movie-I haven't seen it from the beginning.Else I don't know how you came up with such an idea...
They say history is written by the victors and on a side note people like to white wash their own history to make their side look better. Notice how even here in America the Southern text books are very different from the Northern ones in regard to why the civil war happened.
Some history books say Vlad THE IMPALER (you don't get that sort of name from cuddling bunnies!) would slice the breasts off women who had children out of wed lock and then force the babies to drink the blood. Other stories say he roasted the Boyars alive in a room he turned into a giant oven by burning a fire under the floor of the windowless stone room. Another story says he had turkish nobles turbans nailed to their heads for refusing to take their hats off (as is their custom). Then there's the famous story that supposedly was to make him look GOOD when he had a poor farmer's wife put to death because she was 'lazy'. Something he determined by how dirty the farmer's clothes were. And he got the farmer a better wife who always made sure his clothes were clean. There's a popular story that he cut the nose off a servant who didn't like the smell of the impaled corpses.
He might have protected Eastern Europe from becoming part of what is today the middle east but he was not a nice man.
Again, you don't get a name like Impaler for being friendly.
A cynic once said history only remembers the guys who did nasty things to get remembered. You never read about the real heroes.
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