re: #25 steve_davis

ah yes. Vlad the Impaler, right? famous for literally impaling alive various Turkish soldiers. Then again, it was a small country, at war constantly with an Empire. I’ll bet the publicity generated from impaling Turks went a long way towards dampening recruitment enthusiasm for the enemy.

The very same - the one and only Vlad the Impaler. And by all accounts, his particular sadism wasn’t just levelled at Turks. It was aimed at anyone who he felt deserved it. Though many of the legends about his cruelty are almost certainly exaggerated, by any metric, he’d be considered an outright war criminal by modern standards, including crimes against humanity and genocide.

The former Romanian defense minister, Ioan Mircea Pașcu, asserted that Vlad III would have been sentenced to death for his crimes if he’d been put on trial at Nuremberg. Vlad III would rank right up there with some of the worst monsters of the Third Reich.