My favourite Vlad the Impaler story was one where a traveling merchant was robbed in Vlad's capital. The merchant begged the Impaler for help and Vlad agreed. The next morning, the goods, money and cart were returned to the merchant and those responsible were impaled nearby. The merchant went to thank Vlad, as well as complain because among his returned goods was a single coin MORE than what was stolen. Vlad was overjoyed to hear this, and told the merchant that HE had put the extra coin in the merchant's returned goods, and that if the merchant had not reported the extra coin, then Vlad would have had the merchant impaled alongside the thieves.
Imagine if the merchant was just like "nah, I trust this guy, he probably brought all my stuff back" and walked off in complete confidence....to then be impaled.
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The man was so feared, he was the inspiration for one of the most well-known monsters in fiction. And yet, he makes that monster look like an absolute pussy. Massive respect.
The dude would have pregnant women give birth and eat their newborn in front of foreign diplomats just to impress them. "Respect" is not the word I'd use. Psychopath and completely fucking insane maybe.
After Dan III was defeated, Vlad threw him a lavish funeral, fit for the prince he styled himself. As the priest read a mass for the dead, Dan III was... busy, _digging his own grave._ Vlad then beheaded him personally. After going on about Dan, I seriously don't believe you didn't include that one.
Another great story about Vlad is that during his reign there was a golden chalice at the well in the town center that anyone could use to drink with and no one ever stole it out of either respect or fear of Vlad.
Most people respect him, some see him as a legendary hero, others still fear him. I liked a channel about Vlad's real life named corpus draculianum on TH-cam. 📜🤓🍷🤝🇷🇴
Imagine being Matthius Cornvus and just getting random letters updating him on how many people Vlad killed. “Dear Matthius, today we impaled 20 people, miss you
@@Brecconable the term "War Crimes" is a modern invention. If you said that to someone 600 years ago, they would laugh at you. A hearty chuckle of disregard, similar to how George W. Bush and Dick Cheney laughed when they were convicted of war crimes some years ago by an international court. War Crimes? But Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize and then, with the help of the CIA and the Pentagon, funneled military grade weaponry into the hands of Wahhabi terrorists in Syria, including ISIL (allegedly on accident) but then the really weird thing was they were providing precision air strikes against SAA positions that ISIL mechanized infantry were already in the process of advancing towards....hmmm. SUSPICIOUS ?
like the ottomans and mongols came to our lands to share flowers kisses and handshakes...you either kill or youre dead, that was that type of lifestyle back then
Fun fact: Radu the Handsome earned that title because the people of the time made fun of his relationship with the sultan, implying they were both gay for each other.
well, most vasal's children were "used" vby the sultan for fun and obedience training. the boy was around 5-6 when the sultan "broke him in". its said he tried with vlad too, who was around 11, but he was too old to be convinced nicely and apparently, too ugly for his liking. radu took a liking to it and the sultan so the sultan truated him to the throne. radu was bi, if anything, because he later married a woman and had a daughter...that married his cousin, the ruler of moldavia (insert alabama joke here)
Fun fact: to Romanians, vlad is a national hero and they still pray for his resurection for his heroism against the ottomon-turks. Thats badass legacy. A somewhat mythed demon/vampire. Mad respect
Vlad was big boss before metal gear and he was Geralt before there was a witcher. There a couple of old fantasy stories of Vlad being a demonic vampire monster hunter. Very anime.
In Vlad's defense, his killing of the beggars and the homeless wasn't because he hated them. Vlad issued a decree offering a plot of fertile land and farming tools to any beggar who would show up to take it, but only one guy did... Vlad was puzzled, so he sent out another decree inviting the beggars for a free meal... Understandably disgusted with the multitudes of beggars who wouldn't show up for stable work but would show up for a free meal, Vlad did his thang...
Something to add was Vlad hated theft and he was harsh to those beggers because he saw begging as a long-term form of theft. I should also add that he only acted this way towards able-bodied beggers. If they were crippled in some way that didn't allow them to work, he was fine with it, but if they could work but didn't, that's when he had a problem with it.
I didn’t think it could get worse till “-infants affixed to their mothers on stakes while birds had made their nests in their entrails” history is metal bruh
That's an exaggeration. He was a harsh ruler, but a fair one. Also, what stories do you think one of the biggest empires of that era would write about the man that single handedly made them look like a bunch of bitches. The wallachian burgers (burghezia in romanian) hated him because he didn't stand corruption, the ottomans hated him because he beat them every time and psychologically dominated them, thehungarians didn't support him in the end as well. With so many enemies, he's not gonna be praised in history books
There's also a disputed legend that claims Vlad and his forces were once stationed within a valley and moved to higher ground so that when the enemy forces advanced on them, they'd have the sun in their eyes. Vlad would then unleash rabid bats who would fly away from the sun - as bats do - and directly into the enemy ranks, biting soldiers and spreading disease and infection. Since the soldiers were blinded by the sun, they believed the bats to be Vlad's soldiers turned into bats themselves and that's where the stories of vampires being able to control and turn into bats comes from.
I might not know a lot about medieval eastern european history but I know a lot about literary history and the etymology of folk tales and the like. No the whole vampire shapeshifting into animals specifically bats started in the 19th century. Stoker didn't actually base the character off of Dracula off of Vlad as everyone thinks. He based his look and has Dracula offhandedly mention his raids against the turk and his brother but that's it. He certainly didn't know enough not to call Dracula a Szekely. Vlad was Romanian stock not Szekely. Stoker definitely didn't take inspiration from such a story and I have come across no record of this story despite my own personal research into vampire myths. If I didn't come across it western european writers during the 19th century didn't either.
Speaking of, Vlad once tried to give full property rights to his subjects. They revolted and only just accepted having complete ownership of their farms. Honestly, I wonder if his subjects misunderstood and feared it meant that he would stop protecting them. I especially wonder that because literally no one involved got staked for the rebellion afterwards.
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Funny enough with the mandate shit going on seen people quoting old roman shit like "men do not want sovereignty only a just ruler" so yeah freedom scares some people silly. Ignorance is bliss, and so much easier to say just following orders than think for yourself. Add that to the new "you will own nothing and be happier for it" and it doesn't look like much of humanity will ever change. Responsibility is a heavy burden.
Except the people he impaled had already been convicted of crimes and deserved it. Lets separate fact from legend. The had a pretty advanced court system for the time, and it was necessary to send a message both to the criminals and the Ottoman Turks who were occupying and plundering Wallachia at the time. Vlad knew what he was doing. He was far better and wiser leader than many of our contemporary western "leaders".
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 if by subjects you mean the nobles beneath him then yes. You are correct but lacking a few important details. Vlad wanted to give the peasants a better life and assure them property rights among other things. He also hated corruption and dishonesty and was faced with multiple threats at the time of his rule that forced him to take a more serious approach to things. This combination made him a hero to tge people but hated among most of the nobility, not too unlike Julius Caesar in a way, and this eventually led to his betrayal by one of his own subjects during a battle with the Ottoman invaders.
Except Steven is actually written as Ștefan, roughly pronounced Shtefan. The leader in question is Ștefan Cel Mare (Ștefan The Great) and ruled Moldavia for a long time.
Steven was actually Štefan, I don't know how Romanian write Š(sh) in their language. And Štefan is common name in Slavic countries. (I google it. It is Ș.)
One of my favorite stories about Vlad the Impaler is the one where the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II was set to invade Vlad’s territory, but to do so, he and his men had to pass through a forest. Vlad was aware of this, and so he impaled numerous victims on trees throughout the forest as a warning. When Mehmed II and his men arrived, they took one look at the forest of corpses, and immediately turned around and fled.
As a Romanian, it always swells my heart with joy to hear Vlad's tale again and again. Thank you for covering this! The man is a national treasure, and we need him now.
@@KisMiska10 You should know John Hunyadi was wallachian as well. But eitherway, romanians and hungarians collaborated dozens of times. Whether we're speaking of peasant revolts, warfare or diplomacy.
Vlad Tepes saved Europe from the Ottoman Empire, single handedly with a small army and while being betrayed by almost everyone... He should be recognised and elevated to a status of Hero and Saviour...Oh and Giga-Chad...!
Vlad's life is a bit like the War of the Roses or Game of the Thrones. You can find more about the real Vlad on Corpus Draculianum, created by professional historians.
Vlad also ordered the brutal killing of tens of thousands. Let's not idolise psychos. That'd be like Germans idolising Hitler for bringing Germany out of inflation.
I love how the longest running leader and basically the biggest figure in Romanian history is Stephen the great (Stefan cel Mare) but hes just getting bullied for having a shitty name XD
All I ever really knew about Vlad was Ottomans invaded, he impaled, and was seen as a folk hero. There was significantly more impaling than I’d originally thought. Thank you for this.
Vlad's life is a bit like the War of the Roses or Game of the Thrones. You can find more about the real Vlad on Corpus Draculianum, created by professional historians.
Yeah I like his style, but he got a couple of things wrong, 'Can Slavs have more than 2 names?', Romanians and Hungarians are not Slavs... 'Vlad, Vlad, Vlad, Stephen' Stephen was called Stefan not Stephen, its anglicized...
He is a hero in Romania for keeping them as just a vassel and not enslaved. And he lives on forever in literary circles as Dracula. Not a bad legacy tbh.
Vlad: The peasants had their chance. Also: John Hunyadi I gave such a humiliating defeat to sultan Murad at the hungarian border, that the pope of the time ordered that all the church bells are to be rung at noon everywhere in Europe to remember the victory. The defeats against Hunyadi were so serious, that the ottoman stopped all their invasions on Hungary for sixty years. Today the bells are still rung at noon in Europe for this reason. Truly adventurous times those were.
His brutality was not extraordinary for the era and place he lived in. Just his psychological warfare with impaling the slain enemies is out of the ordinary.
Yup like Genghis Khan he didn't do anything anyone else didn't do at the time he was just better at it and in many ways he was actually more just than was usual for his time.
Yes, a lot of people claim him to be evil but ethics/morals/beliefs were far different back then than they are today. We are shaped by our surroundings, and the surroundings he was shaped by were not exactly pleasant.
Imagine being those soldiers surrounded never having seen a gun before and then all of a sudden fire is raining down on you from all sides like holy shit that would be terrifying
@@louiswain9139 Welcome to the Balkans, where tiny nations constantly dealing with behemoth superpowers surrounding the Balkans have to resort to the maximum psychological warfare, maximum ruthlessness, maximum unhinged, cheats, deceits, to compensate for their size, to over 1000 years now. Crazy and Wit have to go together in harmony in these circumstances. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to producing RAID spray bombs for the retaking of Constantinople.
‘Imagine forests of corpses dripping on a buffet, you call that a nightmare, I call that a Tuesday.’ Some boi that likes putting people on pointy sticks.
Vlad III provided loans to local merchants, encouraged education in the trades, brought in experts to train locals in their skills, enforced tariffs at the borders He was a very honest man A touch harsh perhaps
Vlad: “This is my buddy Vladimir, we just got back from hanging with Vladimov, over by Vladivo’s tavern, The Tipsy Vladdy. We’re going to Vladickov’s place for dinner if you want to join, Vladimen”
I don't get why people are so bothered by Raid Shadow legends, i know it's a meme that every youtuber does the ads, but its the same with VPN sponsors and raycon for that matter.
I read a couple stories about Vlad that I like (I also think they are more likely true). The first is that he heard about a woman being accused of being a witch. He had the stake put up, he had her dunked, and when she sank to the bottom of the lake he had her pulled out and revived. He turned to the woman who accused the young girl, and said," these people came to burn a witch. I think they should", and he had the accuser burned. The second story was Vlad was riding by four men shooting archery. He noticed that the three youngest didn't have any shoes. He asked the eldest man why this was, and upon hearing that the father couldn't afford shoes for his sons because he spent his money to train them to shoot for the army, he had three wagons of shoes sent to the family. The next story I heard was about tanners who were charging more to people for their skins so they could pay off the nobles. He had the men skinned alive, so they could see their skins tan in the son. The last story was about a young girl who's father died fighting the Turk. The nobles were arguing about the distribution of the man's land when Vlad asked about his daughter's inheritance. The nobles said that women couldn't run an estate. He pulled out his sword and told the nobles to reconsider.
Galvarino would make for a great mini mad lad, the man literally fought the spanish with both hands amputated. Dude was such a chad when the spanish cut off his hands and sent him back to his village, instead of spreading fear back to his people it spread anger and he had blades strapped to his stumps and led another charge against the Spanish
No I think it's just genuine people who feel the need to dislike EVERY single video. On TH-cam if someone posted a cute video about puppies there will always be SOMEONE SOMEWHERE who CAN and WILL dislike it. Why? Because they can
Believe it or not, there was no word for "Dragon" in Romanian at the time (don't know about now), so for the honorific Vlady Daddy had to pick the closest translation he could find. Dracul actually means "Devil" in Romanian. Ergo, Draculea= "Little Devil".
Just a bit of randomness here. In middle school, I did a research paper on Vlad the Impaler. It was supposed to be 5 pages long, with no more than 3 to 5 images in it, that did not count towards the length of the paper. The teacher didn't know my topic when I chose it. He just wanted us to pick someone famous from medieval history. So I did. LMAO. I was VERY detailed about his history, how he treated nobles, his wars, ambassadors (they shudda removed those caps- - ouch), etc. My teacher was morbidly horrified, fascinated & impressed. I got an A.
Lol wise choice. I had a similar “write whatever you want” research paper assignment in high school. I just wrote about psychedelics and other party drugs and I was the only one in the class that got an A. xD
The teacher must have thought: "This is utterly horrifying, but he did a good a job. I'll give him an A and then call his parents and the school psychologist"
@@kaj7135 Oh absolutely I got one of those write whatever assignments and I made it about penal military units. Dude was super interested in Oskar Dirlewanger and we ended up talking about more terrible stuff, serial killers, accidents and whatnot. He had great books and looked the other way when he saw me smoking in school, pretty cool dude.
I had a similar assignment, but in my school the teacher chose the person that she thought the students would like the most, for some reason I got Josef Mengele, later she said that she thought about giving me Hitler, but that was too easy
He was also supposedly trained in curved swords, requiring a heavy focus on slashes that would bleed the enemy, probably lending to the whole "blood drinker" legend
I worked with a guy who came from Romania. I mentioned Vlad to him and he was shocked that I even heard of him. He did say that Vlad is considered a big hero of Romania. I told him that I couldn’t agree more. He was a true badass.
fun fact, they mostly used sharpened wooden stakes (trees without branches or leaves, sometimes just large branches without twigs and leaves) i think metal could be too smooth and easy to ram through a human body, but also too expensive in comparison to wood. besides, how could metal stakes ever form a forest of impaled people? it had to be made of wood.
If Vlad had been given the power of bamboo, he would have become so powerful that atleast 1/4 of our ancestors would have atleast had his bum pierced by wood
"One day you're herding sheep, the next you're killing Turks. The Balkans haven't really changed much, have they?" As a Turk, I felt that one deep down.
Interestingly, in Medieval Royal Families a person destined to be king would usually only be named a set few names, hence the sheer number of Louis in france, Vlads in Wallachia, Henrys in England and Constantines in Greece. If a kid was born and was likely to be a king, he'd be given a kingly name.
When I was in Afghanistan our camp was right across from a Romanian SF camp and their camps welcome/entrance sign said "WELCOME TO CAMP DRACU" with drawings of people being impaled underneath. They we're really chill to talk to though.
You put an ad before “hated beggars and the homeless” and I was sitting at a stop light with a homeless man right next to my open window when that ad ended. The look he gave me could have skinned a cat. Thanks, Dank 😂
12:07 To give a little bit of context to this decision, months before he offered the poor and homeless free housing and farmlands, but only one person accepted this offer. And he was a war veteran with a hole in his head. So it’s not like it was his first decision to pull a Saint Olga on the homeless population.
Figured there had to be more to the story. A lot of homeless people prefer to be homeless and live off of other peoples' charity. Not much has changed, it seems.
@@beardalaxy still though, free land and housing in that time just because Vlad was trying to be nice? The fact that they snubbed him explains his overkill. He had to get the news and be like " WHAT?!"
@@scottdodge6979 I’d like to imagine Vlad was at the front door greeting everyone, but when the war vet stopped by, he just put a hand on his chest and went “ah ta ta ta ta, you should probably come back in a couple days… We’ll split some beers, trust me.”
he left behind a legacy so great that in romania we still use the word "teapa" (meaning stake) to refer to someone getting tricked or fooled, since he often tricked people into believing he was much friendlier in order to see if they'd commit things that he considered to be morally wrong. And if they failed, you guessed it.
How'd you leave out the mass disertion upon seeing the impaled? Many of whom were still alive begging to be killed or freed? That is the best part of that story
@@udhdbhdhdb5460 It is one of the most popular stories told about Vlad Tepes. It's just weird some of the details are left out here, but maybe that is to maintain an age rating or follow content guidelines. I'm not sure, but the actual event was a lot more horrific than covered.
@@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 What? This has been on discovery or the history channel. The story is way more gruesome. He also left out how many of those impaled weren't old. They were captured soldiers.
Americans call it "fantasy" Europeans call it "Tuesday" Seriously, look up European history and it basically makes most fantasy novels look tame by comparison.
Yes we know, during the black plague people loaded dead bodys that were infected with the plague onto catapults and threw them over the walls. There is more, such as world war 1, and world war 2, world war 2 saw the rape of a lot of german women by the Red army after germanies defeat.
This is absolute twaddle. Entire German diaspora groups were wiped out after being consumed by the USSR. I understand you have bias, due to your ethnicity but don't distort history.
You've got to remember that in these times nails were about 6 to 8 inches long and about an inch wide at the large end. Very pointed sense of humour old Vlad.
Van Helsing: "Count Dracula. Hmm, curious. Are you descended from Vlad Tepes, the first Dracula?" Dr Seward: "Tepes?" Van Helsing: "Ya. It means 'the impaler'. He was a blood-thirsty butcher. He inflicted unspeakable tortures on the peasants: cutting off their hands and feet, gouging out their eyes and then impaling them on iron spikes!" Dracula: "....They had it coming."
It is said that during Vlad's rule, you could drop a coin purse on a road and still find it there the other day. People were afraid of the harsh punishments if they would get caught, which is something good in my opinion. It is also said that Vlad's parents were killed in a peasant uprising, and so he went back to those peasants and swore he will forgive them so long as they built him his own manor (small castle). The last brick that was used to build that castle was also placed there by the last surviving peasant of the peasants that killed his parents. He was extremely pragmatic, but fair.
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Li shuwen would be a lit mad lad or at least his legend would
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My favourite Vlad the Impaler story was one where a traveling merchant was robbed in Vlad's capital. The merchant begged the Impaler for help and Vlad agreed. The next morning, the goods, money and cart were returned to the merchant and those responsible were impaled nearby. The merchant went to thank Vlad, as well as complain because among his returned goods was a single coin MORE than what was stolen. Vlad was overjoyed to hear this, and told the merchant that HE had put the extra coin in the merchant's returned goods, and that if the merchant had not reported the extra coin, then Vlad would have had the merchant impaled alongside the thieves.
It's a pretty great story
Charming fellow.
Sounds like a Dragon to me alright.
Imagine if the merchant was just like "nah, I trust this guy, he probably brought all my stuff back" and walked off in complete confidence....to then be impaled.
he's a real stand up guy 😅
Fun fact: Vlad The Impaler also was the inventor of doner kebab. He was the first to have turkish meat on a pike.
He also invented the unmovable turban.
So it IS true: ''Mehr Doner macht die Welt schoner!''
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As a Turkish man, Vlad is my favorite historical figure.
The whole thing lead to this quote;
"Compared to Vlad the Impaler, Count Dracula was kind of a pussy."
-Mark "Count Dankula" Meechan
"Mark the Insulter"
Vlad vs Dracula Epic Rap Battle of History did that too
Though granted Dracula didn't have a army to help him impose his will. If he did the distinction between the two might be more blurred.
Fun fact: dracula was Vlad's last name, it's a word meaning dragon
@@yeetthegargantuanleviathan6216 his last name was Tepes
Q: Why wasn’t Vlad invited to Poker Night?
A: Because he’s always raising the stakes.
Face palm AND a groan at the same time for that one mate! The sign of brilliantly crap joke 😄
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO get off the stage
Buh Dumpt tsss
My sense of humor has been.....pierced.
🤣🤣🤣
Remember kids, what makes people afraid of you also makes you stand out from the crowd. There are 1000 kings called the great but only one the impaler
I guess "the Lazy One" is neither frightening nor seldom enough to be a good one, is it?
Seconded! Sincerely yours, Emperor Michael III the Drunkard!
Thirded by Charles II the Bewitched
Quarted by Eystein the Fart.
Basil The Bulgar Slayer
"if you're ever invited to dinner in medieval Europe, don't go"
I'll keep that in mind.
Problem is if you don't go it is considered a grave insult that can be used as justification to fight with you or kill you.
@@Kevin7557 dammed if you do, dammed if you don't..... I'd run
more like renaissance europe. This wasn't medieval
/the Rains of Castamere starts playing/
*Gives off Red Wedding Vibes...
Stealing: that's an impaling
Sex before marriage: that's an impaling
Losing a fight: that's an impaling
Being foreign: burning then an impaling
Being a street bum: have a last meal and then be burned alive
Being a Saxon: say it with me class, that’s an impaling
A random Saxon merchant: “Vat
ze actual fuck?!”
Giving too much money to the widows, believe it or not, also impaling
Hanging your toilet paper under instead of over, you better believe that's an impaling.
The man was so feared, he was the inspiration for one of the most well-known monsters in fiction. And yet, he makes that monster look like an absolute pussy. Massive respect.
The dude would have pregnant women give birth and eat their newborn in front of foreign diplomats just to impress them.
"Respect" is not the word I'd use. Psychopath and completely fucking insane maybe.
I too respect histories nastiest rulers.. like hit
...you mean Twilight vampires, right?
Hellsing would like a word
the scariest monsters are people.
After Dan III was defeated, Vlad threw him a lavish funeral, fit for the prince he styled himself. As the priest read a mass for the dead, Dan III was... busy, _digging his own grave._ Vlad then beheaded him personally. After going on about Dan, I seriously don't believe you didn't include that one.
I KNOW!!!!!!
UGH THATS ONE OF THE BEST STORIES ABOUT VLAD!!!!!
when you said “he was busy digging his own grave” at first I thought you meant metaphorically 😄
@@KR-mm4el - LOL! Nope. Vlad had a truly morbid sense of humor.
That's metal. I expect to see sigma grindset memes about it in the future
Would a personal beheading be considered respectable I’m not exactly a history buff.
Another great story about Vlad is that during his reign there was a golden chalice at the well in the town center that anyone could use to drink with and no one ever stole it out of either respect or fear of Vlad.
Who eventually stole it though 😂
I'd guess it was mostly the latter. 😅
Love the profile pic
@@masonsmith9619 thanks it's my kitty
It is said that the chalice was stolen AFTER Vlad died
John MacAfee for Mad Lads. He did not uninstall himself
We need that one!
And uncle Ted
When he was running with the libertarian party, he actually followed me on insta to promote his 2020 campaign
F in the chat :(
lets hope he enjoys his hammock cakes in heaven, lads 😢
Vlad is one of my favorite historical figures. As you said, the master of “fuck around and find out diplomacy.”
Most people respect him, some see him as a legendary hero, others still fear him. I liked a channel about Vlad's real life named corpus draculianum on TH-cam. 📜🤓🍷🤝🇷🇴
Vlad fucked around, and found out himself.
When you're an Ottoman Jannissary invading a backwater country, then the bushes start speakin Wallachian.
B R U H
At that point you just let the guy run you through with a sword instead of surrendering.
When the trees have flesh and entrails instead of leaves.
The turkish: "oh nice another forest...wait a minute"
Janissaries would probably have been born in those "backwater" countries they were invading and understood some of the language.
Imagine being Matthius Cornvus and just getting random letters updating him on how many people Vlad killed.
“Dear Matthius, today we impaled 20 people, miss you
A successful Thot Patrol, but with *WAR CRIMES*
I would imagine being friends with Vlad was extremely stressful.
Wait wait
Mathias corvinus and vlad were the same period? Vlad allied with THAT hungary
20? More like 20,000
@@Brecconable the term "War Crimes" is a modern invention. If you said that to someone 600 years ago, they would laugh at you.
A hearty chuckle of disregard, similar to how George W. Bush and Dick Cheney laughed when they were convicted of war crimes some years ago by an international court.
War Crimes? But Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize and then, with the help of the CIA and the Pentagon, funneled military grade weaponry into the hands of Wahhabi terrorists in Syria, including ISIL (allegedly on accident) but then the really weird thing was they were providing precision air strikes against SAA positions that ISIL mechanized infantry were already in the process of advancing towards....hmmm. SUSPICIOUS ?
i am disappointed you missed the opportunity to have this one be called "Absolute Mad Vlads"
Thanks, now i can't sleep out of frustation
The possibilities Vlad Dracula... Vlad Lenin vlad Putin... All mad all lads all Vlads
Absolute Maddy Daddy Vladdies
Vlad III is a prime example of how history can be even more terrifying than anything fiction can produce.
like the ottomans and mongols came to our lands to share flowers kisses and handshakes...you either kill or youre dead, that was that type of lifestyle back then
@@derp8184 i think he talks about impaling everyone even children. Or was that rightful too?😂
Idk if he was truly Dracula that would be pretty scary, then we have an immortal impaler with no Belmonts
Unless you make fiction as someone who is well read on history.
"The stories you hear about this man, if nothing else....have been watered down."
Fun fact: Radu the Handsome earned that title because the people of the time made fun of his relationship with the sultan, implying they were both gay for each other.
That would've been epic if it were true. A king fighting against his brother and his boyfriend THE OTTOMAN SULTAN
Was he thicc?
@@fidelio9301 Radu the Thicc
@@grosslittlegoblin1358 Radu the spiicy
well, most vasal's children were "used" vby the sultan for fun and obedience training.
the boy was around 5-6 when the sultan "broke him in". its said he tried with vlad too, who was around 11, but he was too old to be convinced nicely and apparently, too ugly for his liking.
radu took a liking to it and the sultan so the sultan truated him to the throne.
radu was bi, if anything, because he later married a woman and had a daughter...that married his cousin, the ruler of moldavia (insert alabama joke here)
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Definitely needed
Absolutely!
Too soon
Im not ready for the feels :( never will be
@@daniloventura112 with you brother
Fun fact: to Romanians, vlad is a national hero and they still pray for his resurection for his heroism against the ottomon-turks. Thats badass legacy. A somewhat mythed demon/vampire. Mad respect
Vlad was big boss before metal gear and he was Geralt before there was a witcher. There a couple of old fantasy stories of Vlad being a demonic vampire monster hunter. Very anime.
That is true.
To slay an infidel is not murder, it is the path to heaven.
@D When the Lord's work is done by righteous hands its a chore like any other. There is nothing evil about preventing the Islamization of Europe.
@@Azraelseraphim *We can't expect God to do all the work*
In Vlad's defense, his killing of the beggars and the homeless wasn't because he hated them. Vlad issued a decree offering a plot of fertile land and farming tools to any beggar who would show up to take it, but only one guy did... Vlad was puzzled, so he sent out another decree inviting the beggars for a free meal... Understandably disgusted with the multitudes of beggars who wouldn't show up for stable work but would show up for a free meal, Vlad did his thang...
Something to add was Vlad hated theft and he was harsh to those beggers because he saw begging as a long-term form of theft. I should also add that he only acted this way towards able-bodied beggers. If they were crippled in some way that didn't allow them to work, he was fine with it, but if they could work but didn't, that's when he had a problem with it.
@samiamtheman7379 I wonder what vlad think of the US welfare system 🤔
@@rubinmaballs9055 european welfare system woes
Yeah, right humanitarian, he was
Based Vlad
Actual demonic undead monsters and eldritch terrors would probably nope the fuck off if told to face their mortal inspiration...
Reminds me of the real Boogeyman AKA Albert Fisher
@@baraayas reading about albert fish makes me feel deathly sick
When Vlad went to hell the devil himself willingly got impaled in fear of Vlad.
@@serenitatis2191 Fish
@@fidelio9301 what
I didn’t think it could get worse till
“-infants affixed to their mothers on stakes while birds had made their nests in their entrails” history is metal bruh
what the fuck is wrong with birds anyway?
@@trippybruh1592 Brings a whole new meaning to "if I fits I sits". XD
That's an exaggeration. He was a harsh ruler, but a fair one.
Also, what stories do you think one of the biggest empires of that era would write about the man that single handedly made them look like a bunch of bitches. The wallachian burgers (burghezia in romanian) hated him because he didn't stand corruption, the ottomans hated him because he beat them every time and psychologically dominated them, thehungarians didn't support him in the end as well. With so many enemies, he's not gonna be praised in history books
@@trippybruh1592 the birds work for the *bourgeoisie impalers*
metalocalypse
Vlad is the proof that you can get reaaaally far in life with the same gag
Or so the Romanians would have you believe.
@@josh6550 You get an A+ for this reference.
The trick is to always perfect it
Man, the world is much poorer without him. RIP Norm
There's also a disputed legend that claims Vlad and his forces were once stationed within a valley and moved to higher ground so that when the enemy forces advanced on them, they'd have the sun in their eyes. Vlad would then unleash rabid bats who would fly away from the sun - as bats do - and directly into the enemy ranks, biting soldiers and spreading disease and infection. Since the soldiers were blinded by the sun, they believed the bats to be Vlad's soldiers turned into bats themselves and that's where the stories of vampires being able to control and turn into bats comes from.
That all sounds highly likely and factual, something that doesn't belong in the realm of myth and legend at all!
@@rocksparadox Its no less ridiculous than multiple square miles of forests made out of impaled human beings.
I might not know a lot about medieval eastern european history but I know a lot about literary history and the etymology of folk tales and the like. No the whole vampire shapeshifting into animals specifically bats started in the 19th century.
Stoker didn't actually base the character off of Dracula off of Vlad as everyone thinks. He based his look and has Dracula offhandedly mention his raids against the turk and his brother but that's it. He certainly didn't know enough not to call Dracula a Szekely. Vlad was Romanian stock not Szekely. Stoker definitely didn't take inspiration from such a story and I have come across no record of this story despite my own personal research into vampire myths. If I didn't come across it western european writers during the 19th century didn't either.
Dank: "..he impaled men, women, and children alike... He impaled everyone!"
Me: "equality in medieval Europe, How Progressive!!"
Speaking of, Vlad once tried to give full property rights to his subjects. They revolted and only just accepted having complete ownership of their farms.
Honestly, I wonder if his subjects misunderstood and feared it meant that he would stop protecting them. I especially wonder that because literally no one involved got staked for the rebellion afterwards.
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Funny enough with the mandate shit going on seen people quoting old roman shit like "men do not want sovereignty only a just ruler" so yeah freedom scares some people silly. Ignorance is bliss, and so much easier to say just following orders than think for yourself. Add that to the new "you will own nothing and be happier for it" and it doesn't look like much of humanity will ever change. Responsibility is a heavy burden.
Well yes it is. Perhaps it's only unfair to children since they are weak and innocent.
Except the people he impaled had already been convicted of crimes and deserved it. Lets separate fact from legend. The had a pretty advanced court system for the time, and it was necessary to send a message both to the criminals and the Ottoman Turks who were occupying and plundering Wallachia at the time. Vlad knew what he was doing. He was far better and wiser leader than many of our contemporary western "leaders".
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 if by subjects you mean the nobles beneath him then yes. You are correct but lacking a few important details. Vlad wanted to give the peasants a better life and assure them property rights among other things. He also hated corruption and dishonesty and was faced with multiple threats at the time of his rule that forced him to take a more serious approach to things. This combination made him a hero to tge people but hated among most of the nobility, not too unlike Julius Caesar in a way, and this eventually led to his betrayal by one of his own subjects during a battle with the Ottoman invaders.
"Be a Chad or some other chad is going to come in, and turn you into their pet femboy."
-Count Dankula, 2021
Femboy Hooters
sounds like being a femboy is wrong c:
Oh no, the true horror of it all, being cute!
nice
can confirm am pet femboy
Vlad was half chad, half unhinged madmen. What a fucking legend.
So a Madlad
*madman
The mix we all need but very few have
Sigma male
@@arcadia09 impaling grindset
Vlad even made his field of Impaled bodies 4200 feet wide. This man was truly a gangster.
@Hugh Mongous lol
that never happen ivan the impaler was thew one that impaled people in mass
Romanian names are great. Everything is either extremely Slavic, extremely Latin, or Dan and Steven
I’m a Slavic Stephen lol
I’m Mihnea, and nobody can pronounce it properly lol.
@@itsdragoman GREAT STEPHEN
Except Steven is actually written as Ștefan, roughly pronounced Shtefan. The leader in question is Ștefan Cel Mare (Ștefan The Great) and ruled Moldavia for a long time.
Steven was actually Štefan, I don't know how Romanian write Š(sh) in their language. And Štefan is common name in Slavic countries.
(I google it. It is Ș.)
As an American, I relate all too well to Vlad's promise to protect the burgers.
🤣🤣🤣
fucking lol, but also me too.
Remember the Bugertown!
@@Gruntvc Long live the Burger King!
Protect the burgervill
So, Daddy Vladdy was rather fond of a different sort of impaling than his son would become so obsessed with.
Tell us more about his son
All romanian rulers were in fact. Stephen is made fun of cuz apparently half of today moldavians are his descents. Not sure if it's true.
Daddy Vladdy wasn't quite 'long' enough to come out of the other side though!
@@johnmanole4779 Stephan Khan.
Vlad II: “Son, lemme tell ya, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as sticking it in someone and hearing em moan and scream!”
Vlad III: “Interesting…”
One of my favorite stories about Vlad the Impaler is the one where the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II was set to invade Vlad’s territory, but to do so, he and his men had to pass through a forest. Vlad was aware of this, and so he impaled numerous victims on trees throughout the forest as a warning. When Mehmed II and his men arrived, they took one look at the forest of corpses, and immediately turned around and fled.
Fun Fact: Vlad is one of if not the only man to have gotten the express approval of both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches at the same time.
@Nocti Nox Vlad did nothing wrong.
It was either Vlad or all Catholics would've been converted to Islam.
Did they have a choice?
One of the others would be his cousins, Saint Stephen the great of Moldavia
@Nocti Nox Cope & Sneed
@@dontworry9540 Istanbul not Constantinople, dilate.
As a Romanian, it always swells my heart with joy to hear Vlad's tale again and again. Thank you for covering this!
The man is a national treasure, and we need him now.
🤣 I agree imagine how he would feel with all the "beggars"..he'd sort that shit out once and for all
You're forgetting he wouldn't have got anywhere without the Hungarians.
@@KisMiska10 You should know John Hunyadi was wallachian as well. But eitherway, romanians and hungarians collaborated dozens of times. Whether we're speaking of peasant revolts, warfare or diplomacy.
@@cormoranuud yes we did colaberate.
This was Kingdom of Hungary and Hunyadi is an ethnic Hungarian.
@@cormoranuud its sad that the Romanian goverment is busy to erease this history.
“What a horrible night to have a new Mad Lads...” - Simon Belmont, probably
What happened tonight
@@potto1488 Nothing, just making a reference to Castlevania
@MusicMaster1987 “What is a man?!...”
@@TheMagnumExpress a miserable bag of censorship
This game sucks
Vlad Tepes saved Europe from the Ottoman Empire, single handedly with a small army and while being betrayed by almost everyone... He should be recognised and elevated to a status of Hero and Saviour...Oh and Giga-Chad...!
Vlad's life is a bit like the War of the Roses or Game of the Thrones. You can find more about the real Vlad on Corpus Draculianum, created by professional historians.
Vlad also ordered the brutal killing of tens of thousands. Let's not idolise psychos. That'd be like Germans idolising Hitler for bringing Germany out of inflation.
I love how the longest running leader and basically the biggest figure in Romanian history is Stephen the great (Stefan cel Mare) but hes just getting bullied for having a shitty name XD
And here is me thinking Ceaucescu had a long run.
Yeah but that's only because Dank doesn't know how to pronounce Romanian names
Ștefan was a greater leader, but Vlad is just more famous internationally.
Vlad had the greatest sigma grindset, he impales the other nobles and makes the children work for him, then impale them. Greatest grindset.
This. If only more people praising him did as an ironic sigma male gindset joke….”joke” 😉
This sigma sht is gey. Sigmas are losers. That's why they aren't alphas. They don't have it.
@@DudeInOhio85
Don't take the male astrology seriously
@@DudeInOhio85 If you define yourself by a letter, I truly pity you
He's on that sigma cuntillionare grindset
"You're using our own brutal tactics against us you monster!"
"Yes"
Sounds exactly like liberals today.
For full effect imagine it as a yes chad meme with the ottoman as crying wojack.
@@emilyadams3228
Oof.
@@atomicskull6405 You don't need to imagine it, there is already a meme.
All I ever really knew about Vlad was Ottomans invaded, he impaled, and was seen as a folk hero. There was significantly more impaling than I’d originally thought. Thank you for this.
Vlad's life is a bit like the War of the Roses or Game of the Thrones. You can find more about the real Vlad on Corpus Draculianum, created by professional historians.
Got to admire a guy like Sigismund for making a group called the Order of the Dragon without sounding stupid
He didn't . A serbian King was. Sigismund and others, including Dracul were just initial members
Wait, Sigismund? As in the first chapter master of the Black Templars?!
@@chiefkeef74 well... Close enough
Love that he’s going further back into history. Count Dankula is a great historian in the making
Mad Lads is one of my favourite YT series’
I'm still waiting for the complete history of Scotland by Count Dankula
Yeah I like his style, but he got a couple of things wrong, 'Can Slavs have more than 2 names?', Romanians and Hungarians are not Slavs... 'Vlad, Vlad, Vlad, Stephen' Stephen was called Stefan not Stephen, its anglicized...
@@bikermike_mars1372 which other ones do you follow? I'm obsessed with count dankulas mad lads and would love to hear more similar!
He is a hero in Romania for keeping them as just a vassel and not enslaved. And he lives on forever in literary circles as Dracula. Not a bad legacy tbh.
Funny thing is, that the Ottomans were so easy on occupied territories that probably Vlad was a million times worse option.
@@grosslittlegoblin1358 "live on my feet or on my knees" etc etc...
@Jinxed Swashbuckler For today we know most of those were exaggeration the church made up.
@@jonbaxter2254 Under vlad people lived as slaves at the mercy of a psichopat, so i have no ide whats your point.
@@grosslittlegoblin1358 As false as it gets. You should read about what they did to Albania and Bulgaria sometime.
Tywin Lannister: Heads on spikes
Vlad the Impaler: Why not whole people?
This pike holds 100% more person than standard pikes!
Vlad: The peasants had their chance.
Also: John Hunyadi I gave such a humiliating defeat to sultan Murad at the hungarian border, that the pope of the time ordered that all the church bells are to be rung at noon everywhere in Europe to remember the victory. The defeats against Hunyadi were so serious, that the ottoman stopped all their invasions on Hungary for sixty years. Today the bells are still rung at noon in Europe for this reason.
Truly adventurous times those were.
That's metal. (I swear to the higher powers that pun was not intentional)
And not a single camera and cellphone in sight, just people living the moment, great days.
"Migration crisis, you say? Hold my beer!"
I assume you mean the relief of the Ottoman siege at Belgrade?
The only video I wanted sponsored by Raid.
Not the game, the roach spray.
Name checks out
Wonder how much they're payin' Dankula to keep advertising. Definitely a pretty penny.
Based
based and balkanpilled
Raid is a pretty good anti bug spray
His brutality was not extraordinary for the era and place he lived in. Just his psychological warfare with impaling the slain enemies is out of the ordinary.
Yup like Genghis Khan he didn't do anything anyone else didn't do at the time he was just better at it and in many ways he was actually more just than was usual for his time.
Oh shit. I remember that!
Yes, a lot of people claim him to be evil but ethics/morals/beliefs were far different back then than they are today. We are shaped by our surroundings, and the surroundings he was shaped by were not exactly pleasant.
@@atomicskull6405 Yeah, and in the Khan's case, he was an even better leader towards his subjects than most nobles back in the day
@@beardalaxy Besides which, who taught him cruelty in the first place? He was a very good student and ended up surpassing his teachers.
Hats off for the biggest case of "necessary evil" in human history, boys!
Coming from the blue player no less
Agreed
@@IAmMyOwnApprentice A red mage is agreeing with me. I am uncertain how to feel about this. Clearly I have to research the answer to that.
I heard necessary evil??! Who called?
Hats off to old Vlad indeed.
Imagine being those soldiers surrounded never having seen a gun before and then all of a sudden fire is raining down on you from all sides like holy shit that would be terrifying
I thought vlad was just crazy but he seems to have been a good tactician
@@louiswain9139 Welcome to the Balkans, where tiny nations constantly dealing with behemoth superpowers surrounding the Balkans have to resort to the maximum psychological warfare, maximum ruthlessness, maximum unhinged, cheats, deceits, to compensate for their size, to over 1000 years now. Crazy and Wit have to go together in harmony in these circumstances. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to producing RAID spray bombs for the retaking of Constantinople.
@@milkshakebarrage9581 DEUS VULT!
@@milkshakebarrage9581 based
They probably did see guns, as guns were commonly used since the early 1300s and were also everywhere in the 1400s
‘Imagine forests of corpses dripping on a buffet, you call that a nightmare, I call that a Tuesday.’
Some boi that likes putting people on pointy sticks.
Big up erb
*"I Dont like the term "war-criminal", I prefer "Battle-Bandito" instead :)"*
It is quite catchy
Damn. I love that!
I´m gonna use that
Classy
Vlad III provided loans to local merchants, encouraged education in the trades, brought in experts to train locals in their skills, enforced tariffs at the borders
He was a very honest man
A touch harsh perhaps
"Thot patrolling...but with war crimes!" Dude I'm fucking dead
Vlad: “This is my buddy Vladimir, we just got back from hanging with Vladimov, over by Vladivo’s tavern, The Tipsy Vladdy. We’re going to Vladickov’s place for dinner if you want to join, Vladimen”
Yes, vlad is a common slavic name. What's surprising about that?
The most mad Vlad lad ever. And I'll stake my reputation on it.
Cyka vlad
Man, imagine being a stake merchant back then. You’d be rolling in it.
*Vlad Tepes III is a blessed and holy man. May his enemies break in terror at the sight of him.*
God is with Wallachia
Stop glorifying that animal
@@Ahmedkhaled-ev1jw lol turks put in Vlads spliff
@@Ahmedkhaled-ev1jw what horrible things vlad did in his reign time turks did every week.
@@Ahmedkhaled-ev1jw nah
Dank: “thanks to our sponsor Ra-“
Me: “Raid shadow legends”
Dank: “Raycon”
Me: “….Proceed”
you can tell when he's about to do a Raid add, because he prefaces it with "It is, in fact, your boy..." He doesn't do that for anyone else.
More like
Dank :" thanks to our sponso...."
Me : >>>>>>
Raycons are rebranded cheap shit, though. It's worse than raidi shaidi because people will directly lose money.
@@shabath what are they rebranded fro so I can get some ?
I don't get why people are so bothered by Raid Shadow legends, i know it's a meme that every youtuber does the ads, but its the same with VPN sponsors and raycon for that matter.
I read a couple stories about Vlad that I like (I also think they are more likely true). The first is that he heard about a woman being accused of being a witch. He had the stake put up, he had her dunked, and when she sank to the bottom of the lake he had her pulled out and revived. He turned to the woman who accused the young girl, and said," these people came to burn a witch. I think they should", and he had the accuser burned. The second story was Vlad was riding by four men shooting archery. He noticed that the three youngest didn't have any shoes. He asked the eldest man why this was, and upon hearing that the father couldn't afford shoes for his sons because he spent his money to train them to shoot for the army, he had three wagons of shoes sent to the family. The next story I heard was about tanners who were charging more to people for their skins so they could pay off the nobles. He had the men skinned alive, so they could see their skins tan in the son. The last story was about a young girl who's father died fighting the Turk. The nobles were arguing about the distribution of the man's land when Vlad asked about his daughter's inheritance. The nobles said that women couldn't run an estate. He pulled out his sword and told the nobles to reconsider.
Vlad? More like Chad!
@@liamvanniekerk1814 he did have three wives.
bayzed vlad also doesnt support sexism well would you look at that
This is the kind of progressivism we need.
@@liamvanniekerk1814 Chlad.
"Can slavs please come up with more than 3 names..."
Meanwhile in medival Serbia everyone was named Stefan Dusan
Which is just two names
Galvarino would make for a great mini mad lad, the man literally fought the spanish with both hands amputated. Dude was such a chad when the spanish cut off his hands and sent him back to his village, instead of spreading fear back to his people it spread anger and he had blades strapped to his stumps and led another charge against the Spanish
Vlad the Impaler, better knows as Vlad the “they got what was coming to them” PerfectlyJustifedWarriorGuy
Bruh he committed ethnic cleansing. Nothing about that was justified
@@zzodysseuszz ghey
@@zzodysseuszz Yes it was.
@@zzodysseuszz stfu and read more than the otoman propaganda
Justified in killing infant children?
Anyone who believes what he did is justified, deserves the same done to their children also.
The Turks were not far off with their brutality, he just fought fire with a bloody furnace
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Brutality l think was common among all societies
He just did it better, and is therefore remembered for it.
@@____________838 Damn right
Vlad brought a flamethrower to fight the turks barbeque lighter
Vlad: butchered thousands
Dracula: ate a few people
Dankula: memes
Ah the burgers, the Americans ancestors, a proud, sturdy, round people
Meaty, one might say.
@@ThenDarknessFalls And with great mustard.
This was a long, long time before hamburgers.
@@taffysaur they were people of a more culinary age
@@brutalbob842 American mustard is shite.
‘I’ve been looking forward to this’
-Christopher Lee, the ultimate madlad
One solitary down vote, and the thing hasn't even premiered yet. I think that might be someone still mad about Pugsy.
2 in 5
No I think it's just genuine people who feel the need to dislike EVERY single video. On TH-cam if someone posted a cute video about puppies there will always be SOMEONE SOMEWHERE who CAN and WILL dislike it.
Why? Because they can
TYT and Vice News fans probably.
Little Buddha lives rent free in their heads saluting all day! Bless that pug.
It's obviously the Letter People
Believe it or not, there was no word for "Dragon" in Romanian at the time (don't know about now), so for the honorific Vlady Daddy had to pick the closest translation he could find.
Dracul actually means "Devil" in Romanian.
Ergo, Draculea= "Little Devil".
it's old romanian, words were different.
Just a bit of randomness here. In middle school, I did a research paper on Vlad the Impaler. It was supposed to be 5 pages long, with no more than 3 to 5 images in it, that did not count towards the length of the paper. The teacher didn't know my topic when I chose it. He just wanted us to pick someone famous from medieval history. So I did. LMAO. I was VERY detailed about his history, how he treated nobles, his wars, ambassadors (they shudda removed those caps- - ouch), etc. My teacher was morbidly horrified, fascinated & impressed. I got an A.
Lol wise choice. I had a similar “write whatever you want” research paper assignment in high school. I just wrote about psychedelics and other party drugs and I was the only one in the class that got an A. xD
The teacher must have thought: "This is utterly horrifying, but he did a good a job. I'll give him an A and then call his parents and the school psychologist"
@@RyoKasai25 English teachers love horrifying shit. lol
@@kaj7135 Oh absolutely I got one of those write whatever assignments and I made it about penal military units. Dude was super interested in Oskar Dirlewanger and we ended up talking about more terrible stuff, serial killers, accidents and whatnot.
He had great books and looked the other way when he saw me smoking in school, pretty cool dude.
I had a similar assignment, but in my school the teacher chose the person that she thought the students would like the most, for some reason I got Josef Mengele, later she said that she thought about giving me Hitler, but that was too easy
Looks like Vlad was a forest conservationist as all the forests he cut down for the stakes he put back up just with flesh instead of greenery.
Definitely fertilized the areas, too.
I mean, in Targoviste the impaled field of Turks is known as the forest of the impaled. Or simply known as THE Forest.
Ah what lovely scenery...
Basically carbon neutral
Madlads on McCafee would be grand
too soon
@@stiprus_garsas who cares, it would be a great way to honor his life and get his story out to more people
@@stiprus_garsas it’s literally happened 15 years ago
He will absolutely do it at some point. Pretty much a perfect fit for this show.
Their coffee isn’t that great.
“Say what you want about me, but at least get my name right”
He was also supposedly trained in curved swords, requiring a heavy focus on slashes that would bleed the enemy, probably lending to the whole "blood drinker" legend
Very dumb take. They actually drank and still drink blood. Prince Charles is related to Vlad and the royal family all drink blood
targovishta in Castlevania: oh no spooky night creatures!
Targovishta in history: forest of impaled men, women and children
I’m fucking losing it every this “Dan” is brought up
Same and i dont know why, ill never talk to a dan the same why again
dan :D
dan :D
dan :DDD
Bruh Dan had a heros name fought the villian named Vlad the impaler but lost
I worked with a guy who came from Romania. I mentioned Vlad to him and he was shocked that I even heard of him. He did say that Vlad is considered a big hero of Romania. I told him that I couldn’t agree more. He was a true badass.
“One day you’re herding sheep, the next your killing Turks. Not much has changed in the Balkans have they?” Bro, I died. Love the channel. 🤘🏼
Me as a teenager: Ah, Vlad the Impaler. Big Bad Villain of Transylvania.
Me, just now: Ah, Vlad the Impaler. Big Boss.
We consider him one of our greatest national heroes, here in Romania.
As one commenter said above, what Vlad did in his reign, the turks did in a week.
I'd like to imagine that Vlad would have various metal workers in his throne room advertising their various stake designs for him to decide.
fun fact, they mostly used sharpened wooden stakes (trees without branches or leaves, sometimes just large branches without twigs and leaves)
i think metal could be too smooth and easy to ram through a human body, but also too expensive in comparison to wood. besides, how could metal stakes ever form a forest of impaled people? it had to be made of wood.
Think, they wouldnt get that much metal back then but im sure if they could they would've
If Vlad had been given the power of bamboo, he would have become so powerful that atleast 1/4 of our ancestors would have atleast had his bum pierced by wood
"One day you're herding sheep, the next you're killing Turks. The Balkans haven't really changed much, have they?"
As a Turk, I felt that one deep down.
Same here man same here
REMOVE
@@PetarJovanovic993 Дај нож да не трошимо муницију.
then go back to Turkey.
@@rutessian stay mad
Interestingly, in Medieval Royal Families a person destined to be king would usually only be named a set few names, hence the sheer number of Louis in france, Vlads in Wallachia, Henrys in England and Constantines in Greece. If a kid was born and was likely to be a king, he'd be given a kingly name.
Vlad's underlings "Hey Vlad where are you going?"
Vlad "I'm just leaving, I need to return some videotapes."
Now lets see Paul Allen's impalement...
@@DEV3N87 bruh i just laughed so hard i farted.
Sounds like the safest job was a Stake Maker.
Plenty of job security under the Impaler regime.
Hell even being a lumberjack was probably extremely lucrative. I wonder what kinda wood they used 🤔
@@austinharris2961 Likely a hard wood, as you don't want those you put up to come back down anytime soon.
just not the stake beta testers
Their had to be one guy who made good ones and became super wealthy because of it. People have always respected the hustle
*Vlad slays 23000....in 2 weeks...*
Sultan: 18000 should do the job.
When I was in Afghanistan our camp was right across from a Romanian SF camp and their camps welcome/entrance sign said "WELCOME TO CAMP DRACU" with drawings of people being impaled underneath. They we're really chill to talk to though.
Not many historians know this, but Vlad was actually the first person to wear black air forces.
You put an ad before “hated beggars and the homeless” and I was sitting at a stop light with a homeless man right next to my open window when that ad ended.
The look he gave me could have skinned a cat.
Thanks, Dank 😂
So did you get him drunk, and then set him on fire? =P
Mark III Meechan Dankula, known throughout history for his cruelty and viciousness when slapping people around in the Raid: Shadow Legends PVP arena
I laugh my ass off every time Dank says "Dan"
And I don't laugh easy
x2
For me, it's the fact that he sounds disappointed.
Ah, my favorite historical figure of all times. Vlad "Don't Fuck About, Don't Find Out" Tepes the 3rd.
12:07 To give a little bit of context to this decision, months before he offered the poor and homeless free housing and farmlands, but only one person accepted this offer. And he was a war veteran with a hole in his head.
So it’s not like it was his first decision to pull a Saint Olga on the homeless population.
Figured there had to be more to the story. A lot of homeless people prefer to be homeless and live off of other peoples' charity. Not much has changed, it seems.
@@beardalaxy still though, free land and housing in that time just because Vlad was trying to be nice? The fact that they snubbed him explains his overkill. He had to get the news and be like " WHAT?!"
@@beardalaxy Vlad was the final solution to any problem.
@@beardalaxy The phrase really should be “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Try to teach a man to fish, and he’ll complain about the work.”
@@scottdodge6979 I’d like to imagine Vlad was at the front door greeting everyone, but when the war vet stopped by, he just put a hand on his chest and went “ah ta ta ta ta, you should probably come back in a couple days… We’ll split some beers, trust me.”
he left behind a legacy so great that in romania we still use the word "teapa" (meaning stake) to refer to someone getting tricked or fooled, since he often tricked people into believing he was much friendlier in order to see if they'd commit things that he considered to be morally wrong. And if they failed, you guessed it.
Dracul also means demon now and not dragon, right?
@@somerando5360 yeah
@@somerando5360 it literally translated to "the devil"
Vlad the Impaler might not have been exactly the most inventive man when it comes to execution methods. But it did get the job done.
How'd you leave out the mass disertion upon seeing the impaled? Many of whom were still alive begging to be killed or freed? That is the best part of that story
Kevin what the hell
@@udhdbhdhdb5460 It is one of the most popular stories told about Vlad Tepes. It's just weird some of the details are left out here, but maybe that is to maintain an age rating or follow content guidelines. I'm not sure, but the actual event was a lot more horrific than covered.
Kevin what in the fuck
@@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 What? This has been on discovery or the history channel. The story is way more gruesome. He also left out how many of those impaled weren't old. They were captured soldiers.
Yup, Vlad managed to make the Turks completely shit their pants with utter terror.
Don't hate on Vlad just for having a better Ottoman collection than you.
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He put his foot on them like he was furniture shopping.
Americans call it "fantasy"
Europeans call it "Tuesday"
Seriously, look up European history and it basically makes most fantasy novels look tame by comparison.
Yes we know, during the black plague people loaded dead bodys that were infected with the plague onto catapults and threw them over the walls. There is more, such as world war 1, and world war 2, world war 2 saw the rape of a lot of german women by the Red army after germanies defeat.
@@singularitytr1550 is like to point out as bad as it is the Russians were returning to Germany what was already done to them by the Germans
This is absolute twaddle. Entire German diaspora groups were wiped out after being consumed by the USSR. I understand you have bias, due to your ethnicity but don't distort history.
@@sh-hg4eg you’re the one distorting history mate
@@ComradeCommissarYuri They were raping Polish girls too. Not mentioning Ribbentrop Molotov pact.
You've got to remember that in these times nails were about 6 to 8 inches long and about an inch wide at the large end. Very pointed sense of humour old Vlad.
Van Helsing: "Count Dracula. Hmm, curious. Are you descended from Vlad Tepes, the first Dracula?"
Dr Seward: "Tepes?"
Van Helsing: "Ya. It means 'the impaler'. He was a blood-thirsty butcher. He inflicted unspeakable tortures on the peasants: cutting off their hands and feet, gouging out their eyes and then impaling them on iron spikes!"
Dracula: "....They had it coming."
Is that from a Dracula movie?
@@colliric _Dracula: dead and loving it_ with leslie Nielsen. If you like the Naked Gun movies and Airplane! it's hilarious.
Vlad, the one dude who thought of crucifixion and said "that should be worse"
It is said that during Vlad's rule, you could drop a coin purse on a road and still find it there the other day. People were afraid of the harsh punishments if they would get caught, which is something good in my opinion.
It is also said that Vlad's parents were killed in a peasant uprising, and so he went back to those peasants and swore he will forgive them so long as they built him his own manor (small castle). The last brick that was used to build that castle was also placed there by the last surviving peasant of the peasants that killed his parents. He was extremely pragmatic, but fair.
"People were afraid of the harsh punishments if they would get caught"
"Which is something good in my opinion"
Both comments above this are manchildren
@@drollrambler4982 People crave strong leaders, it's not hard to understand.
@@cream583 So you wanna get impaled for stealing a candy bar from a dollar store
@@chev3569 i wouldn't steal a candy bar because I'd be afraid to get impaled