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The REAL Dracula Was Worse Than the Legend — 20,000 Bodies on Stakes

532K views · Feb 7, 2026 · Entertainment

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  • @WatchAncestral · 7 months ago · pinned

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  • @RPSchonherr · 7 months ago

    Vlad and his brother were tortured by the Ottomans trying to force them to convert to Islam. Is brother broke but Vlad escaped and took his vengence stopping the Muslim invasion of Europe from Turkey.

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  • @grantz9234 · 6 months ago (edited)

    He didn&apos;t destroy the Ottoman Empire. He repelled them from entering Europe and spreading Islam. Which was an amazing feat considering how small his army was.<br>Europe needs him TODAY!!!

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  • @Nagi-q1b2k · 7 months ago

    Vlad III learned all those brutal tactics from &apos;the fine young Turks&apos; truthfully I rather admire Vlad Tepes III Dracula!!! Radu was a dreadful embarrassment and made a woman by the Ottoman Horde!!! Vlad did not invent a single one of those torture tactics he may have improved on them but he certainly gained knowledge of them by the Sultan and his subjects!!!

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  • @duanejohnson9798 · 7 months ago

    You didn&apos;t explain his younger years and how he lost his ear and his sexual abuse inspiring his impairment of his enemies. 😢

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  • @ursul-x7d · 5 months ago

    This narrator talks like Dracula personally stole his lunch money.

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  • @corlenwilschire · 5 months ago

    I think it would be like walking through a flower garden, seeing traitors impaled by spikes, some burning and lighting the path, knowing my home is safe from them

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  • @Alexander-o2r5i · 7 months ago

    Hit this by accident but im glad they got mad magazine&apos; to draw the thumbnail

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  • @MarkFraser8 · 6 months ago

    Vlad was an remains a national hero in Romania. He was brutal, but necessary.

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  • @brendanbroas4006 · 4 months ago

    I&apos;d imagine sniper set up from a huge birds eye view with endless 50 cal rounds.

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  • @JohnSmith-df2wi · 5 months ago

    He seemed like he was ahead of his time in terms of equality. 😃

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  • @shawn2571 · 4 months ago

    This Vlad sounds like a heck of a guy. Kept his women and his enemies in line

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