Vlad Dracule, the real story of Dracula

I have been educated in three different cultures (Arabic, French, and American) and I find that in America, our history scholars often critize our ancestors.

One specific historical figure I would like to point out is Vlad Dracule or Vlad Sippish (The impaler), known to most of you as the historical Dracula. (I'm going to say the story in a nut shell, cause it would take way too long to write down the whole story.)

Vlad ( I'll call him Vlad from here on) was a Prince who was born in Romania (or Transylvania). The area was taken over by the Ottoman Turks. Vlad joined an organization called: "The Order of the Dragon" to defend the empire against the Turks.

At the time, the Turkish sultan was demanding two hundred young Romanian boys so he could do whatever he pleased with them. At a young age, they were basically sex slaves to the sultan and were then brain washed to serve the sultan in his army. Dracula's younger brother became actually becomes loyal to the Turkish sultan.

Dracula is always seen as a villain in movies and so on. But the historical Dracula really did things to help his people. So he impaled his enemies, big deal. At least he didn't make young boys into sex slaves like the Turkish sultan. Dracula is often considered cruel by historians because he would impale his enemies, but funny how Genghis Khan is considered a "brilliant war tactician" (As it says in my textbook) when he would literaly leave no prisoners and kill entire towns full of people. As long as he's not European, it's okay.

ANother thing I would like to bring up is King Richard the lion hearted. Many see him as a horrible king, and say how much better Saladin was compared to him. Saladin use to have two thousand heads mounted outside of his tent just so he could look at them.

The only point I'm trying to make is that our history teachers and professors are way too afraid of insulting other cultures that they make ours look terrible. How many of you honestly knew that Dracula was really a Prince fighting for his country? How many of you knew that the Sultan would get roughly two hundred young boys a year to molest and fullfill his sick sexual desires? If there is anything I forgot to add or that anyone would like to point out, please go ahead.

If you feel like bringing up any other historical figures that you feel are put down, please feel free as well. Thanks for reading.

I am in full agreement with you. People alway make Dracula out to be the enemy when he actually helped his people (I am a massive vampire fan so I know quite a bit about 'the main man'). I do think it's wrong the way we make some out to be cruel and forgive others. It just doesn't make sense really; it should be the same praise for them all.

I mean the way Bram Stoker portrayed Dracula was like he was some vicious 'beast' which is untrue but it is good for a horror I guess. But I am still in agreement with you as I see no need to criticise Vlad for helping his country. Thank you for this, was a great read and good topic to discuss.

Vlad the impaler did quite more than impale his enemies, he allowed superstituion to make people his enemies when they had no mal against him. He essentially terrorized,he was a lunatic who had those who opposed him die a slow, excruciatingly painfull death.

That may be true. But he did stop the corrupt nobles in his land. He did kill the corrupt nobles, but what else could he do? (I mean these to History scholars, not to the people reading this.) If you let your enemy go, he's going to retaliate. People who engaged in Medievil wars often went mad. Richard the lion hearted eventually went insane (on account of all those battles he participated in.)

You are right though, his methods were brutal, extremely brutal, but his method is very similar to that of the Mongolians under Genghis Khan. khan completely destroyed villages, leaving no one alive. Eventually, if someone just mentioned that the Mongolians were coming, the entire village would flee. Khan saw no reason for prisoners, so if your nation fought back, and if he won, he killed all of the remaining inhabitants.

Vlad did use fear to terrify his enemies. But unlike Khan, it was more out of defense rather than to conquer something that wasn't originally his.

Vlad had insane ways, don't get me wrong, but all he wanted, in the end, was his homeland back. He has a truly sad story. His own brother betrayed him. And a few of his own people betrayed him as well.

the Dracula most people know now isn't related to Vlad Dracule anymore... it became a character. producers, writters, drawers, etc saw a great money-making project with this character so they used it, as simple as that.

Dracula the vampire is still one of the most popular fantasy/horror character and every film concerning him will make a lot of money, that's for sure...

My last name is Khan, does that make me special? Anyway, I knew that Vlad was actually defending and not just sucking blood for the hell of it. I haven't really put much studying into this but in what ways did he impale his enemies? As FBI stated Dracula is only a thing Hollywood made up to earn big bucks. The two versions have grown so far apart that I don't consider them related anymore.

Lenin was actually a true communist and lived in a tiny appartment with only what he needed to live.