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In Romania we are told that there was so little crime during vlad's rule, that a pouch with gold coins wouldn't even be stolen if it was left in the middle of a field unwatched. Nobody really explains just how brutal that man was
A brutal man in brutal times... what would you have wanted him to do instead? The Pope didn't give a shit about his country, Hungary betrayed him, and nobody helped him fight of an entire invasion of Eastern Europe, besides Moldova. Would you just... sit there and let Mehmed take your country? :))
@@polybius9089 You are making a very good point
Because nobody wants to invoke the ire of a sociopathic killer who also controls the country.
@@polybius9089 Well, that said he was definitely a sociopath however, he was also a tactical genius when it came to psychological warfare. The terror he instilled in his enemies is epicly legendary. Where do you think Hitler got so many of his ideas with respect to psychological assault on people, aka propaganda? Vlad was also an excellent field marshal. He ruled ruthlessly and mercilessly. No one wants to tempt the rabid dog.
... so it worked?
The fact he pickpocketed Winston Churchill of his pocket watch is hilarious.
Who vlad the inpailer i love to see a spike go up thoughtytree ass
THE THUMBNAIL picture is King Nebecanezer !!?? Babalon
The fact that I live in Egypt is worse since King Farouk's actions were continued by his sons and grandsons who took the throne and all of them are the purpose that caused Egypt to be in serious debt and poverty
@@Zous2005 so they need Tsar treatment
🤦♀️😆😆😆
Vlad was actually a very consistent ruler, with him you knew what you were getting, and what you were getting was impaled
If it's consistency that I want I would rather be beheaded rather being impaled by sharp hardwood in the anus
@@Titan-fk2fi better sharp hardwood than dull hardwood.
@@jaychristensen3635 you somehow know what's worse, is this from experience? Probably felt like in Sauvage
@@jaychristensen3635
Would balsa wood make it more tolerable?
And if that’s what you wanted, then you came to the right bloodthirsty ruler.
"Why did (Vlad) do it?"
I'd say it's pretty obvious. Wallachia was much smaller and less powerful than the Ottoman Empire. So what's the best way to stop something that's bigger and more powerful than you from attacking? Make them afraid of you. And the Turks were terrified of Vlad.
But what happend to his brother? Did they ever saw each other again? Were they mortal enemies as he was now a turk? I get why he was a great inspiration for Dracula. This story is just too juicy.
It also was a clear message that he considered them criminals for their actions in his country. He learned impalement by seeing it in Turkey, used to execute what were considered the worst criminals. He knew what it meant to them. That is why he impaled even dead bodies for them to see.
@@Psilocybism
His brother Rado led army against him and defeated him and he lived prison after Rado's death Vlad ruled again his country just for two months until he got killed in battle with Uthmanic army
Indeed. Vlad did the right thing, he was a military genius.
@@vladimir8035and clearly an egocentric bastard when you say you're a military genius about yourself. 😂😉
Peter the Greats obsession with dwarf weddings sounds relatively harmless
Desertsniper23
As long as they weren't forced
@@jamesredman1263 At that time, if a forced wedding was the worst thing to happen to you, then your life was ok lol
There’s just something funny about a grown man sitting in a giant throne, beckoning one of his servants to request “say it’s a fine Saturday evening, let’s get another one of those magnificent wedding ceremonies going with the tiny people!”
I think that’s actually kinda cute, arranging weddings for little people.
Well what if you’re a broke ass tall guy? You’d be feeling pretty marginalized:)
After watching more than 20 videos, I am 100% certain that he says "Forty two".
That is exactly what he says; turn on CC in the video.
Damn that's true, the subtitle says it and I checked 4 videos, and looked at his lips carefully, it's obvious that he is saying "F" not "th" but why ? is he trolling , I'm curious to know why
He explained it in an early video. He is a huge Douglas Adams fan.
@@Edwardo160 42 is the meaning of life according to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams, knowing this guy I would be very surprised if that wasn't what he is referencing
English pronunciation I say it for t too as well also 3 is free etc
Caligula (“little soldier’s boots”) is actually only a nickname given him by his father’s soldiers, his real name was Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
oh hey that's why i was suprised at never hearing about him. Thanks.
did you get that from The Trials of Apollo?
@@btwanonymous4801 no, from my latin book haha
@@divyaornella9453 BS
What a coincidence that's my half cousins name
Man, Tsar Paul was just born too early.
I guarantee you that if you showed that dude some anime or movies about what he liked, he’d be too caught up to do anything else
Actually would be so random russian weeb if he was born now
@@impyrobot Actually, he wasnt Russian. Paul was the son of Peter III and Cathrine the great were both from royal german families. And the person that would really have become a weeb was his father, Peter III...that guy was obsessed with his soldier figurines, and used soldiers as toys. He would probably been labeled an incel too...
Cleopatra: Puts pearls in wine to drink sparkling wine.
Caligula: Asserts dominance by drinking sparkling vinegar.
u r a moron. diluted vinegar was a popular drink in Rome, more popular than wine.
@@sillysad3198 no need to call names, he was making a joke
Drinking pearls beats drinking wine in the shiny rocks.
Ah--it was vinegar Cleo used; wine doewsn't do much to pearls except, if r/ad, to stain them.
Pearls dissolved in vinegar were consumed or given by aristocrats anciently as an "aphrodisiac" particularly for males. Like Viagra.
“And it turns out they were!” said quite cheerily.
🤣
Vlad the impale is from my country!
We are vampires btw
@@exhorter7363 Yes we are :) We all are :))
@@exhorter7363 you shouldn’t be happy that he is from your country it’s like being happy that Adolf hitler is from your country
@@peanutbutterman411 I-it was a joke 👁👄👁
Nice video Thoughty2, but Nero didn't actually play the fiddle while Rome burned. This is because Nero was in power 37-68 A.D, yet the fiddle wasn't invented until 1500. The phrase "Nero fiddled while Rome burned" is likely just a metaphor for him not caring about Rome burning.
Nero was one of the first to provide aid after the city was burned.
Down with the bed clothes, and up with the night shirt, fiddle about, fiddle about.
LYRE?.
its a mistranslation of diddled
The Heavy is a spy!
Some things about Vlad The Impaler: His father was a member of the Order of the Dragon, but the average Romanian peasant didn't know what a dragon represented and for them it looked like the devil and called his father (also named Vlad) Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Devil). So when it came for Vlad the Impaler's turn to come back he was named Vlad Fiul Dracului (Son of the Devil). About his capture in the Ottoman Empire, it's simple. It was customary of the Ottomans to ask for tribute in order not to invade weaker countries near them. Besides money, they would also ask for 1 or 2 children from every noble family in the country in order to insure that they would behave. Also, things were different back then, these kids although very young already knew a couple of things about combat and even politics, so the Ottomans would try their hardest to train them and make them convert to their religion in order to secure them as officers in their army. It is said Vlad was such a talent in training that the Sultan wanted to make him his successor but who knows...
Lastly, about why he made that forest of impaled bodies.. the most common tactic used by Romanian leaders in the Middle Ages was the scorched earth. Basically you set everything on fire and poison Wells so that the enemy starves to death in order to give you a chance of fighting or even make them go back. You can imagine this has devastating effects for both sides so Vlad wanted to change that a bit. He would want to inspire fear among the turks so that they would flee from fight or froze on the battlefield by thinking they are fighting the Devil. Although brutal, it worked. Also, Vlad the Impaler was a direct inspiration for Dracula because it was rumored he was consuming turk blood every night or bathed in it. This was actually false, it was propaganda started by the Turks in order to make other Europeans countries be like "wtf who's that psycho near us?". Let's say it backfired helping Vlad look even more evil.
Vlad, although brutal, was very smart actually.
Dracul means dragon. And his last name came from the order of the dragon not from the peasants naming him after the devil which is a completely different word than Dracul anyway. where do you learn this nonsense.
@@cd5433 Dracul is according to Google Translate the Romanian word for “the devil”. I’m not sure where you get your information, but based on the name I would dare to guess that the OP is actually Romanian.
Simpsons in the movie:
EPA Soldier: "Sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power."
Russ Cargill: "Of course I have. Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring, no one listens to you!"
Nice, good time spent on an educational program, proud of you.
This was my favorite part of the whole movie.
I mean, he’s not wrong
modern politics simulator
Listening to him describe Vlad the Impaler's actions give me pain in the arse
All wrong a great military leader
@@jonathanhennessy2984 Not wrong, yes a great leader but also a complete madman.
@gregory pruden He was stating his opinion ffs. People are allowed to state their opinions
@@notus11 Because his opinion is wrong, his judging his action base on current morals and modern conditions, read some histories, especially the relationship Romania had with ottoman empire
@@jonathanhennessy2984 no
The violin, or fiddle had not been invented in Nero’s time. The phrase ‘fiddling’ referred to mucking about, much as it does today. Nero continued with his debauched evening as Rome burned.
While Rome burned, Nero reportedly recited an epic he had written on the burning of Troy, accompanying himself on the lyre, before an audience of refugees.
@@Lucius1958 That sounds about right.
The whole Nero watching Rome burn was more than likely a rumor made by an angered populace
Well, it conveniently burn out a massive area for his new palace. Although, the fiddle thing was added many centuries later. No such instrument existed in 1st century AD (I'm not using CE and BCE when they are still based on the erroneous date of Jesus' birth)
*vlad impales a victim*
Vlad: "NAILED IT!"
🤣🤣🤣
Leave
Xd 😂
Wonder if he liked Marshmellos
@@pifnbnd Bring Daddy another beer would you?
You left out my ex-girlfriend.
Make that most women.
@@gordonlawrence1448 Especially the feminists, emos, and promiscuous ladies. Stay far away from em'!
Karen IV
Ex-Wife
That makes one guy. 🚲
Historical correction, Nero didn’t play the fiddle while Rome burned as the fiddle wasn’t invented for another couple hundred years
It was said he played the lyre.
Damn it! Now we (the United States) has a president that can't remember things and accidentally says the quiet part out loud.
Reading this comment in October, and these days I often wonder if he remembers whose side he's on.
Vlad the impailer and his younger brother Radu "the beautiful" were taken from their father and raised by the otomans by The Gate in order for them to have control over the next in line. And while Radu was a vasal for the otomans, Vlad took revenge on them. Impailement was something he learned at the gate.
Radu "the beautiful" was a name that was given to him in mockery cuz he was a figure for the otomans.
You suck at spelling
@@Infamous41 yap
true. Vlad learned all his techniques of how best to impale from the turks themselves. it was told the Ottomans were torturing people in most brutal ways, and were very efficient at it. Vlad saw impaling as the best way to inflict suffering and death to traitors, beggars(there was plenty to work for, yet some chose to live from the kindness of others), and especially, those he hated most, the ottomans, while also making the spectators tremble. if you see him as brutal now, yes. he was. but there is a reason why romanians today see him as a hero still. and his character back then was something forged in captivity, during that age. Vlad re-orientated all that brutality towards his hated enemy. and truly, even Mehmed II was impressed by the display of some 20000 impaled turks outside the vallachian capital. Vlad, as many romanian voievods that really fought against the turks, always struggled with few resources. Vlad's weapon was FEAR. had he had a few more men and a bit more loyalty... his shadow would have hunted the turks even after his death
Just like everything in history, I bet this is exaggerated as well. Heard he could fly too at night. And when he would fart a puff of tomb dust would come out and he used it to build tombs for those he wanted to torture.
@@itsyourenotyour9101 i bet Vlad, in his fear inducing campaign, would have tried to make himself a living demon for the ottomans. but, he was only human. What he learned during his captivity was brutality. Like the mongols, or the Timurids, the ottomans wanted to instigate fear most of all. Made for easier conquests. Vlad used that knowledge and turned it into a symbol: cross us and we impale you. It was centuries later when Stoker wrote the famous book, inspired by Vlad Draculia, or Vlad Dracul. Funny how our language changed over the years. During Vlad's reign, Drac meant Dragon. Now it means demon.
Video: "...it wasn't long before all of that changed..."
Ad: "Life has changed..."
Anyone else find it creepy when ads do this?
I was talking in a private chat about dress military uniforms specifically the boots, and a ad for dress boots popped up.
I'm actually getting really annoyed how they sell our information to advertisements now.
meh i saw a trump ad i suspect the algorithim uses subtitles to promote certain ads
@@blank8479 that seems likely
Why are you watching ads?
@@crassus300 No you attracted it by thinking and talking about it. It's a universal law.
In finnish "nero" means "genius". When I was a kid I thought it was a moniker because he was such a great leader, maybe a brilliant military strategist and diplomat. Boy, was I wrong. :D
12:52 to have brutally, and silk scarf in the same sentence makes this interesting enough
Nero didn't play the fiddle as it wasn't invented yet. He played the lyre, and based on records he wasn't even in the city when Rome burned. Both Nero and Caligula were also both loved by the citizens just hated by the Senate and their enemies.
Kim jong un is also loved by the people..
@Graal It is great that we have you to debunk what 90% of historians have said after years of cross referencing different sources. It is crazy how the people who devoted their lives to the study of history over looked this part. The youtube historians are just so much smarter it's baffling!
@Graal Cite your research paper if you are as invested in the matter as you claim. Saying what university you teach in would also add to your credibility so I could look up the research output of your university.
As for reading the book, as a 3rd year economics student I unfortunately do not have much time to research things that are outside of the scope of my thesis if I wish to be admitted to a top University after my BSc.
Graal Name of the University and the articles you have written about the subject. Surely you can list your own works off the top of your head.
@Graal im waiting for the list of the papers you have published so I can read up on it. Im sure you have sourcing in your academic writing anyways so I can decide what to read from there.
Obviously you won't ever tell me about your published papers because there isn't any since you are either not a history teacher at all or work in a low tier university that has next to no research output.
A history teacher could summarise the books that you are telling me to read and then telling me to read the books if i ask for sources. Obviously you aren't going to summarise anything because you don't have the education for basic academic writing.
I don't remember giving king farouk that hitler picture
Big fan
It was probably same time you gave signed copies of the Quran to the Bosnian SS.
And I don't remember that you spoke English xD
It’s kinda weird how you switch from 1st person to 3rd person lol.
Doctor Hitler
Farouk was extra crazy when he became known as the shadow king, was defeated by a psychic, and then pretended to be a super psychic child's dog to leach off of him and steal his power.
6:42 wait.... is andy samberg immortal?
Caligula, the almost "normal" compared to his twin brother, King Jeoffrey Baratheon...
I knew I recognize him from somewhere
I wonder how accurate those stories about ancient Rome really are. At least they're captivating.
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 As a former roman citizen who stayed between the new & old world. It's as accurate as GOT.
He even looks a little like Jeoffrey! :D
That statue looks just like him. Weird
When rome burnt, there wasn't even a fiddle invented yet... So nero playing one, is just a false rumour.
He is a time traveler
Guess we can call him...a lyre
Mitch........what the fuck is this?
I remember reading that the original text actually means that Nero 'fretted' while Rome burned--no quite the same.
Theres alot of evidence suggesting nero actually did alot for his citizens during the fire and saved quite a few lives by allowing people into his gardens and even feeding the masses on his dime making him very popular at the time inflatingthis new emperors ego to new heights.... its only when he decided to rebuild that area that used to be residential property into his own personal architectural playground art peice that bankrupt the empire where hos popularity plummeted but his head never returned from the clouds, he might have considered himself a God and his subjects must bend over backwards and sacrifice themselfs for the empire(him).
Heres a awesome short film documentary about nero.
czcams.com/video/_ukIHEwE_zY/video.html
I thought they disproved the whole “playing the fiddle while he watched it burn,” thing? Every research article I’ve read, says that’s a myth.
It is. But the myth lives on.
Wrong guy it was Nero
hosting dwarf weddings sounds pretty nice to me
Making senators run in front of a running horse sounds like a good idea, we in the USA should have a vote to make them just do that.
I'd vote in favor. Though, chariots are pretty old-fashioned. Let's make them run in front of a tank!
Cmon Bernie, just a few hundred feet more
An excellent idea, perhaps the supreme court judges bent on subverting the constitution could join in and we couldn't leave out congress either..
@@TheRealJeff2 trump first
@@rayanderson5797 Naw that's a Chinese thing we should use a semi.
I recall hearing Nero wasn't in Rome when it happened, and the fiddle wasn't invented around his time.
Nero was in Rome and fairly new archaeological evidence (documents) seems to indicate he tried to help the people.
Nero was very nice as Roman emporers go
Here's what I've heard is the story behind Nero fiddling while Rome burn. He had nothing to do with the fire of course. But then he got his advisors together to talk about rebuilding Rome, he acted a little to happy about the opportunity to rebuild the city, as if he was glad it had been destroyed so he could rebuild it as he wanted. And initially, he wanted to build so many temples and monuments that there would have been no money left to build housing.
From what I read, he wasn't in Rome when the fire started. He came back to town to help.
He did like to play his cithara, but probably wasn't playing it at that time.
Many weren't thrilled with how he rebuilt Rome after the fire. His domus aurea was insane. Add to that his abuse of the Olympic games, his performances, what he did to poor Octavia and even Poppaea (Agrippina kinda had it coming), the ground was fertile for believing those rumors.
@@ollie1704 your crazy if you think that. He is regarded as one of the worst leaders ever. Probably Rome's worst.
I’m surprised you didn’t go into depth on Stalin. Bro was crazy. The most immoral thing he did was cannibal island.
42- your vids are highly entertaining yet getting eerier and evenmoreso mind boggling. Love it!
Vlad wasn't crazy in the least. Everything he did was well calculated. His brutality came from his time raised in the Ottoman Court. His brutalization of his enemies was not original ideas they were copied from the Ottomans themselves. He knew his enemy he knew what he was facing. He used fear to break enemy moral because he didnt have the actual resources or manpower to do so. People seriously need to dive deeper into the man behind the myth.
If that isn’t crazy to you at all, you might be crazy as well as him
Give me sources that state ottomans partaking in torture and inhumane killings of civilians. They werent even allowed to cut trees or pick fruits belonging to inhabitants of the lands in wartime let alone put a nail through someones head or impale them alive. Dont believe what you wanna but look for truth before you call this man a hero or claim he adapted things from the ottoman court. His brother was there aswell why didnt he do fucked up ish like that then?
@@Big-BossX wtf are u talking about
@@BoggleMeBog read it again slowly jesus
@cheezl nah bro you people cant be argued with. Thats not how the balkan conquests played out if you took your time for example to read diaries from those days or travelers reports you would not be claiming crazy shit like that
Peter the Great: Big weddings for small people
Me: hmm interesting
*FBI open up!*
Hmmm?
Oh man, I thought you were going to talk about Bathory.
Awesome video, love your work
Loving your audio book!
You left quite a lot out, he learned about the impaling while under Ottoman capture, so as punishment ... that's why he did it back to them
Ottomons didn't practice that
He actually impaled more Romanian countrymen than he did Turks.
The Ottomans never really outlawed slavery.
@@ifrazali3052 no of course not they were muslim angels
I swear it was practiced by turkic or mongols
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I'm too obsessed with these vids. Been binge watching for weeks now
That hey at the begining melted away a surprising amount of stress today!
"George IV threatened to kill himself if women didn't sleep with him."
Me: *Wait... I can use that* 🤔
Put that on my Tinder profile
No man it's overused .
Actually it can be considered to be rape/blackmail apparently also don't do that
Please tell me your joking that’s extremely manipulative
People do that..
They treated him well and trained him to made him what we Bulgarians call Enicher. The Enichers were kids kidnapped by the ottomans and brainwashed to become their solders, once that is done they turn them against their own country, you save your own solders that way. My country suffered the same conversion... anyway that is the reason why they kidnapped him and treated him well and trained him, they wanted to make him their ally. Vlad did what he did in order to stop the Ottoman Empire moving further in Europe, the only way to stop the Ottoman army at that time was to be a bigger monster than them. Don't get me wrong I don't harbor hatred for the Turkish or sympathize with Vlad, but I respect both their moves because they were efficient, horrible, but efficient, when it comes to history personal feelings must not get in the way in order to learn from them and to be honest both strategies were genius, so what I want to say in the end is - Well played to both of them.
I've heard in Romania, they still quietly think rather highly of him for doing whatever it took to save the region from being overrun by the Turks.
@@ressljs yes they tend to celebrate people like him on the balkans for example gavrilo princip avram lancu and other murderers and terrorist scum
@Razul Darkwood what if they just wanted to show him the real science art and other stuff romania wasnt really developed and its still not even today for example romania is the only european country where lepracy is still a problem like in some 3rd world african country and 40% of the country doesnt have canalisation running water that means no english toilet no shower nothing at all and this percentage in an average european country is between 0.5% and 1% (weekend/boat houses) they have barely any asphalt roads...
From a certain perspective, it wouldn't have mattered for a common man which power elite was going to rule them... Every power elite ends up doing nasty things anyways...
Sounds to me like you look up to a scumbag.
Nero actually created the Roman firefighter corporation, but since who wrote the records were religious institutions for the most part, when he depleted the temples' coffers to rebuild Rome he also gained very powerful detractors. Do a Video on Nero
love the videos... I'm on a binge on your channel keep it up
Mr 42 is quickly becoming one of my favorite youtubers! His videos are always very interesting, his voice is as smooth as velvet and his moustache is spectacular. Never, ever shave it off. I predict Mr 42 will become a 21st century mega star!
Similar to thoughty 2 😉
You mean thoughty two
The amount of historical inaccuracies is going to make me lose my mind
I'm not a huge history buff so pls inform me, don't want to be ignorant
Yeah I thought this channel was good when I first watched few videos, but after this pile of bullshit I wonder if any of his videos have any credibility at all..
really, please tell me
@@trashchild5945 Vlad was not "captured ", he was send as a guarantee to the otoman court, to ensure his father loyalty . It was fairly common,. Vlad was a kid, and he was raised as a turkish prince.
He was put on the throne BY THE TURKS , when his father was murdered by the nobles . His first move was to kill the sed nobles. The second was to turn on his " friends ' that were enslaving his county .
Impaling was not " crazy " or inexplicable, and had nothing to do with blood thirst ..it was LONG, PAINFULL, and PUBLIC. It was the turkish method of punishment , because it terrorized the ppl and acted as a deterrant. Vlad learned it from them.
@@speedy7040 thanks dude, really shows how much people can get away with saying if they have enough viewers
Ok the *pickpocket* thing was basically his only redeeming quality. Not that it’s a “cool” thing to do, but because it shows (frustratingly) that he could actually be great at something if he bothered to work at it!!
Love how you tell your awesome storys....don't stop how you tell your stories....🐺🐺🐺
I always thought the real vlad tepes was more interesting than the vampire one.
I agree. Theres alot of false info out there. He was definitely brutal..almost inhuman. However...he had his reasons. I do find alot of these leaders from long gone eras interesting. ☺
Originally, Vampires weren't these polished, sexy types.. It was Lord Byron's personal physician, John Polidori, who re-imagined vamps the way we see them today.. Which, frankly, works for chicks (I'm one).. But millions of horrible movie franchises and Anne Rice books later.. I agree with you, Vlad Tepes is infinitively more interesting! Definitively more than his movie versions..
@@SacredWaves His small country was defending against Ottoman empire, which was a force at that time. Imagine Turkish soldier moral drop when they march the road and see bunch of people on spikes
I agree. Dracula was a pussycat compared to Vlad.. lol
SECONDED!!!!!!!! LOL he was on another level lol.... I want to see an epic horror film about him lol
So here's the point of view of a Romanian who knows his history:
Vlad the Impaler was one of the greatest Romanian to ever live (behind Mircea the Elder, who was his Grandfather and officially the "best" Romanian of all times for various reasons), and one of the greatest hero of Europe 'till this day. He impaled only the ottomans, the lazy, beggars and the criminals. He wanted to remove the influence of Boyars (the rich ones) and get Wallachia (at the time southern Romania) on the right path, trying to impose equal laws across the country. Criminals would often do crimes, then retreat on Boyars' property for "asylum", so to say, because the Boyars could do whatever they wanted with their ground and with everything and everyONE on it. So those criminals would escape trials this way.
Vlad didn't like that, so he wanted to make an example out of those criminals by impaling them. The news circled around the country, and for more than 2 YEARS, not a single person would have the balls to do a crime - Vlad even put a golden pokal (among other riches) in the middle of a village and they remained untouched because of the consequences that could follow. He was also a man of God, praying to Him for hours every night.
The Boyars couldn't care less about the country, or whether or not Europe would become an Islamic Caliphate. Vlad summoned them all in the morning to talk about the country and they could do to improve it, and guess what: they've decided to arrive in the afternoon. Vlad said the following:
"The country must grow in one year like in ten, to be among the western world, and you come in the afternoon?! Your needs first, and then the rest. It is not the country that is yours, but the other way around! I, too, am of the country! They say Ladislau of Hungary, not Hungary of Ladislau. Kazimir of Poland, not Poland of Kazimir If it wasn't this way, nations would perish along their leaders."
One day, the Boyars wanted to start an uprising against Vlad, in order to put to the throne one of their own so the they could have the maximum amount of privileges they wanted. So they went and burned a monastery and killed the priests there. Those responsible for that went to a church "to pray", but not really tho, they used it as an excuse not to be killed, because they were in "the House of God", and you know, you shouldn't commit sins there. Vlad was aware of it but he had no other choice and put his guards to arrest those people, and he was confronted by the priest at that church, implying the same thing about killing and arresting people in a Church, to which Vlad said:
"He should have come to the holy Church before he did this attrocity, not after!"
This is the dialogue between the two:
Priest: "Do not kill! Love the one next to you as yourself! Guide his soul to the right path!"
Vlad: "I must guide the COUNTRY to the right path! About souls, your Holyness should worry about!"
Priest: "Those souls are each shepherd's responsibility."
Vlad: "Every shepherd with his own flute."
Priest: "From your Highness' flute comes a pagan sound."
Vlad: "Do not steal, do not kill, do not confess lies about the one next to you, do not crave for what it's his, should you wish to live long and peacefully on Earth. (Quote from the Bible about the Sins). Are these or are these not the holy commandments?"
Priest: "You have learned them well, your Highness, but you didn't understand them."
Vlad: "Have I ever done something different than what the Bible says? Have I ever punished for another guilt? It is from your Holyness' flute that come pagan sounds, whenever you try to defend the unlawful!"
Priest: "God does not wish the death of the sinner."
Vlad: "- but his correction, I know. But if these are commandments, then let them be commandments! In order to correct 10 sinners, one of them must die. For 100, 10 must die. It is in vain that you ask the thief not to steal, the killer not to kill! Prayers serve no purpose. It is not the love for God which brings people to the church, but the fear of Hell's punishments."
Priest: "And you, your Highness, wish to embody them?"
Vlad: "If you'll obey my commands, 10 of you would win for 100, and 100 for 10.000! And the enemies of our swords will perish! Should you choose to do differently -" (quote from the Bible)
Priest: "- I will return with my wrath and punish you seven fold for your sins! You will perish among the peoples, the earth of your enemy will swallow you whole." (the continuation of that quote)
Vlad: "And I should wait for this punishment with my arms wide open which results in the death of our country?! Mahommed is close... before him, our country must be like a Sword made of Immortal Steel! Swords are forged in fire, not words, your Holyness!"
Priest: "But not in Hell's fire..."
Vlad: "I don't have other fires at hand."
Hard times require strong men!
Surrounded by the Ottoman Empire from the South wanting to conquer the country, the Pope and the filthy, traitorous Hungary which passively wanted the same (the Pope didn't help Vlad only because he was Orthodox, and not Catholic, and the Orthodox don't really see the Pope as a super importand person like the Catholics do, not because he wanted Romania - just to make it clear) and chose not to aid Vlad on the war with the Turks, Vlad had no other choice but to take the matters in his own hands and use Psychological Warfare, which was extremely effective, and everyone seem to forget how it was a major thing in the Medieval Age. "hE wAs A mOnStEr" - well I have bad news for you: at the time, as a ruler of a country, you HAD to become one in order to protect that country and its citizens! You're a fool if you believe that, during the Medieval Age (aka the most brutal time period in the history of mankind), you could ensure the survival of your nation and its people with only flowers and sweet words!
The Boyars then went to the West to spread false information about Vlad. Things like "Vlad is a demon, a cold-blooded killer who's gone insane!" and also the famous "Dracul" thing, which has the following story (also presented in the movie):
Kid: "Father, why do they call him "Draculea"?"
Old man 1: "How should they call him then? Draculea, meaning the son of Dracul, like they called his father (Vladislav II, Vlad the Impaler's father), Vlad Dracul."
Kid: "He was a drac? (devil)"
Old man 1: "He was a man, kid. A good man."
Kid: "But if he was a good man, why did they call him "Dracul"?"
Old man 1: "Because he wore a balaur (dragon) on his neck." (a necklace)
Old man 2: "Stop fooling the kid. It wasn't a balaur, but a dragon."
Old man 3: "Dragon! That's what his Highness called it. He received it from the Germans and it was a symbol of great honor!"
Kid: "Father!"
Old man 1: "What do you want, kid?"
Kid: "Was it a balaur or not?"
Old man 1: "It was a dragon, if your old man says so (Old man 3), because he was part of his Highness' Royal Guard once and he knows."
So Vlad Dracul doesn't mean "Vlad, son of the Devil" but "Vlad, son of the Dragon" - Protector of Innocents. The devil thing was, as I said, one of the many lies those Boyars had spread around the Western World to give Vlad a bad name, because he wouldn't do their biddings... and we all know how much influence a rich person (boyar) could have at that time, don't we? Also the impaling thing, he's learned it from the Ottomans (who've still used it during the Siege of Constantinopole and after), and used it as revenge for what they've done to him while he was a hostage in their Caliphate. They've forced him to submit to Islam and some might even claim that he was sexually assaulted as a kid by the Sultan - but that one I don't really know wether it's true or not.
So yeah, that's pretty much it "in a nutshell" - there are more things to the story, and for that I recommend you watch the movie (which is free) on CZcams. It also has subtitles. :) Have a good one!
I thought you were describing hitler because they sound very similar in their excuses to wipe another peoples from a nation
2 long 2 read
I’m sure this is interesting and all, but I don’t want to read all that lol.
i envy Romanians they had a hero as magnificent as Vlad! our heroes are pale shadows
That was a fantastic bit of history and a good read. Thanks for sharing. Where can I find more historical facts that will back this up outside of a movie?
5:02 lmaooo biggest troll in history 😂😂😂
Whoever says that Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned is a lyre!
This was seriously entertaining
Fascinating...love the focus on lesser known rulers
@@virtualartteacher1837 Agreed
"you guessed it, he impaled them"
Maybe that's the way to defend your lands from Islam?
@@-ahvilable-6654 *Ottoman
@@htoodoh5770 it was the official and the main religion of the ottoman empire
@@-ahvilable-6654 ah yes, torture the people that even when they imprisoned you they treated you well and gave you knowledge. Christianity is very "beautiful"
@@-ahvilable-6654 wtf I do agree with defending my home from invasion but disfiguring them is out of order.
Neros neckbeard makes hime the strangest ruler on this list
I’d love to see the history of calendar and the different calendar that exist. Looking forward to that
Nero didn't play the fiddle when Rome burned he actually did a good job at the relief effort.
If he'd played an instrument while Rome was turning into an ash pile, it would have been a lyre, not a fiddle. 😉
@@EricMustardman he was considered to be the anti christ based on christian of that era.. nowadays christians are still waiting for the "anti christ" even though he already been dead long time ago
@@charlymrivera7236 Wait, I thought that Trump was still alive. 😁
@@EricMustardman well, considering that trump almost bring peace to the middle east and also was about softing north korea dictator... he is a saint compared to joe biden... who practically is becoming the enemy of the world
@@charlymrivera7236 whats biden been up to? i barely pay attention. too stressful
if I'm not mistaken, Draco was the title given to Vlad's father, meaning Dragon, Vlad was given the title Dracula which means "son of dragon"
Yes, you're absolutely correct!
Well, you are kind of right. In romanian "drac" translates to devil(as in evil spirit) and so would the word "balaur" which is synonymous with "dragon". Thus in short, it can be translated to dragon, but it means evil spirit or devil.
Vlad dracul was the father of Vlad the impaler. "Dracul" means "The demon" or "The devil" so it was not Vlad the dragon but Vlad the demon.
@@drmed3506 but it comes from the Latin word Draco, which means dragon, but considering dragons have been associated with the devil, it makes sense
@@EvakCorleone perhaps you are corect but over the time the meaning of dragon faded away and now we only asociate it with "The demon" or "The devil".
I’ve got to say that Caligula’s love for his horse is adorable.
I'd toss in King Carlos II of Spain (1661-1700), who suffered from numerous physical and mental disabilities brought on through inbreeding. Charles VI of France was nicknamed "Charles le Fou" for his madness. And, of course, there's Ludwig II of Bavaria.
chanel member? early access?
Henrik Wallin what???
Bavaria is not an independent 'nation', they are a state of Germany. Also I don't understand the Joke.
@@sonicvenom8292 ...and a very nonsensical stupid joke.
1:32
That was a common Turkish strategy or in a way a strategy that has being seen all over the centuries.. You take the heirs of a kingdom hostage and by doing so your binding the hands of the opponent, and if you raise them in "turkish" and Islamic education and making denying that education result in punishment led to great results in vassalizing lands in the future.. Sure the quality of education was VERY high comparatively to some other states.. But it came at forced conversions cultural and religiously.. And by doing so your converting the next generation of rulers in the country you are holding the person hostage from..
It was a very powerful strategy and it worked on Radu III the Fair for example (Vlad III his younger brother).. But the forced attempt at religious and cultural conversion and punishments for denying it contrary to his younger brother only led to him hate the Turks more and more.. Same as some of his "cruel" methods like impaling happened in the Turkish Empire as well because of the effects both on suppression and intimidation that it has..
But Vlad just crossed the line and started impaling everyone left and right.. Making even the cruelest among the Turks look like saints..
Huh, i wanna be captured by the turkish now
@@bk2active too late , they stopped doing it duh
@@bk2active
Good try but you cant get captured anymore by the Turks to get your free education.
They had their policy changed and you will no longer get your for free.. You could still get captured though, but the prison you will visit probably isn't the same Vlad III visited.
Heard not to good things about some of the prisons there.. Only thing is you atleast won't get impaled..
@Cezarr
I agree.. There are some who applaud the man, because it was he who almost single handedly put a stop on Turkish approach for a few centuries..
He earned the title dragon for a reason.. He was absolutely fearless..
But why I said he was crossing the line was because you need to look at whom he impaled, if a woman had sex before marriage impaled, beggars were killed and many other things..
Turks impaled public opponents and to make a example out of someone.. Vlad made it a regular punishment even for what would be minor crimes in other kingdoms.
It isn't a question about modern values because even back then fellow Christian nations were shocked at the horrific crimes he committed against the Turks and his own people.. And that says a lot..
You can argue he was a one of the most fanatical and radical among the Christians the world has seen.. That is just a fact, regardless of the arguably positive effect those horrific crimes had for stopping the Islamic approach.
Jannisaries!?
In Farouk's defence, that fez is absolutely cracking
You forgot to mention how Vlad the Impaler managed to get his throne: By sword dueling the other man claiming the throne (Dan III -the young- of Wallachia) and killing him in the duel. How metal is that. And now people vote and stuff...
Oh, by the way, they were also cousins.
"These are the most insane rulers who ever lived"
Wow they must measure a lot.
*THEYRE SOO BIG THAT THEY CAN MEASURE MY HUGE, LARGE, BIG, HUMONGOUS, AND GINORMOUS*
swimming pool.
ahahha good one mate
@JustAlex gay 😂😂
"wise men keep to themselves, they'll never be leaders."
- common sense
That Egyptian dude was some character... Guy like that would have a TV show today 😅
QE2 waving and saying "hellooooo" for 70 years doesn't sound too bad, does it.
Crime rates dropped during Vlad's rule...just saying :D
Btw, Arran, if you see this comment, hope you'll enjoy my parody of you ;)
Only because Vlad himself was not alloud to be counted in the stats.
facts they cant do crime if u kill them all, i like your thinking
He's still considered a hero in the region.
Because he was every sadists wet dream!
Becuase contrary to popular belief he only killed invaders and the scum such as bandits and lazy people which refused to work.
I'm Romanian and I can confirm Vlad was not someone you'd want to mess with. And his hate for the Turks was justified. But not only was he a killing spree maniac, but also a fair ruler.
I'm afraid if I was raised in those times, I'd be pretty ruthless too. I almost never lose my temper, I'm scared too. It supposedly comes from my moms native American indian blood. She had the same habit of holding still and her eyes would turn black. The menace would just emit from her like smoke...she never spanked us, she didn't have to, we never wanted to see her in action, and my dad was frankly terrified of her, even though there was never any yelling or violence...it was just a weird aura..
@@christineparis5607 What a buncha bologna
You can confirm ? You knew him ?????
He really was fair! That is a fact! How do I know it? I know my history.
He made sure that Muslims would not enter the country.
Hey man, thanks for your videos, you should have noted that the queen Elizabeth is a descendant of vlad the impaler
Good video, but Nero wasn't even in Rome when the city was burning, he was 35 miles from Rome in his villa, and he returned to help relief efforts. Oh and the fiddle didn't exist during that time. This is a common misconcepson people make about nero .
Mao Tse Tung (biggest mass murderer in history) Pol Pot (killed a third of his population), the Shah and Mobotu should be on here.
Ivan IV of Russia should've made the list as well. You don't get to be know as 'the terrible' for being a nice, mentally stable ruler (and he lived in the medieval Russia).
Well Mao kinda did it accidentally, he's still the worst tho
@@kugelblitzingularity304 He had a pretty good idea of what was happening. Many of those were avoidable deaths under his watch.
@@kugelblitzingularity304 This is what you get by making a peasant god-king.
This is not about the most evil but about the craziest rulers.
But... As a Romanian, I can say that Vlad wasn't that bad, he was incredibly just and really harsh only to criminals. And proof to that is the fact that only a little time after death, a lot of Romanian songs praised him. Plus, Saint Stephen the Great (the ruler of Moldova) freed him because he could be trusted both by himself and the Vatican. And more, Wallachia was a really small country compared to the Ottoman empire, whatever endures international freedom and freedom of religion can and should be done.
He legit saved eastern Europe from becoming Islamic.
@@thenotorioussk Anyone who kills for religion is no better than a jihadist imo..
I don't think anyone who slowly tortures tens of thousands of people with spears through the ass can be called "not so bad". I mean remember that most criminals aren't child torturers. Most are just common thieves. and religious figures giving him the ok doesn't make it better either since they were pretty messed up through history as well
@@magnus4346 a jihadist isnt a muslim
But i dont think you care
He was a hero not just to the people that centuries later turned Romanian but to all the ordinary honest and hard working men and women of the Orthodox faith on the Balkans. All who say he was bad and preach moral are usually very dumb westerners who tend to forget he did not invent impaling. Lots of impaling was done before and after him. He was a man of honor who had been through and has seen a lot of bad and evil sh*t who did what he had to in a desperate attempt to preserve the Balkan/Bulgarian/His and his people's way of life. Yall who talk bad about him how about turning your attention to his victims the most inossent of which were liars, killers and thieves and his greatest foe the sultan and the ottomans. Do i need to remind what happened to our ancestors who refused to become muslim or how the boys turned janissaries were often sickeningly sent to kill their parents as proof of loyalty? how about you discuss that? Vladislav Dracul was one of the greatest men to come out of the Balkans and one we desperately need today!
Surprised Ivan the Terrible wasn’t mentioned.
So I think one of the reasons why there were so many strange people in power is because when you’re in power you can do more of what you want regardless of the consequences so therefore these people probably would’ve also been odd if they were normal they just would not have been able to get away with being so odd in society if they didn’t have that amount of power
Caligula was fighting the Senate. That's a very important detail to remember when people talk about the man.
And a sexual sadist
@@Wraith3100 They say history is written by the winner. Caligula did a lot of what seemed like crazy things just to fight the senate and I'm sure the senate retaliated, so that makes me wonder how much of Caligula's history is true.
I think the whole making his horse a council member was a way to slap the senate in the face
@@WildsDreams45 god same here. I was so baffled by the sources of Caligula. Like I don’t know if any of it are actually true or not. I read that his sister Agrippina the younger originally wrote an audio biography of herself and her siblings. However it was never completed, because her brother banished her. I just wondered what it would be like, if her memoir was ever published, maybe we’ll possibly see Caligula in a whole different light.
I've heard a theory that, as a child, Caligula was one of Tiberius' 'little fishes' (I'll let your imagination fill in what he did to them) As a result, Caligula was severely traumatized which made him later lash out when he became Emperor in extremely disturbing ways.
I honestly can't imagine what my life would be like without hearing "Hey, Thoughty2 here..." every so often but it'd probably be way more dull, so thank you for doing what you do Arran 🙏
It's 42
"Hey, Fthoughty2 here"
Caligula and Nero were bad, but Commodus gives Nero a run for his money in crappiness, and Elgabalus ranks up there with Caligula in insanity.
Only channel I can confidently click “like” before hearing the content. Kudos “42”!
How are there 14 hour old comments when this was posted 30 seconds ago?? Anyway, love you always Thoughty2!
Probably posted private or unlisted first for Patreon or similar and now offiically for rest of us plebs.
Channel members get to see videos earlier
@jager64xxx xxxpanzer basterds
@roosevelt__ I've seen the difference in time posting and comments and have wondered why. Thanks for explaining it.
Illuminati confirmed! #time travel *it's the only thing that can explain it.
"Just what was his problem exactly"
Obviously Vlad had some unpleasant "oops, dropped the soap" moments during his captivity
TRaMA DaMaGE
Omg you caught me off guard with "LOOK at that forehead" lol
Presentation, Research, Mustache... Bravo
Why does mr fourty two talk so sadly...it breaks my heart
He doesn't , at least he doesn't sound sad to me..
It's his accent.
And his speech defect (inability to pronounce "th"). Hence "forty two", the answer to life the universe and everything rather than "thoughty two".
@@angrytedtalks ive been watching his vids for so long and hes been more happy and energetic
@@angrytedtalks It never occurred to you that this might be on purpose, a pun?
Sad!
hes a realist
Love your videos Thoughty2! But I couldn't stopped giggling at the 03:13 mark when you showed two Buddhist monks instead of Orthodox ones. I can't imagine them in Medieval Wallachia unless it's a comedy like Shaolin cowboys. I doubt there weren't any videos in the stock footage. Keep you the good work, sir!
I like you Thoughty. Good job with all this. :)
Your best video yet good job brother
Arran's voice sounds fantastically enthralling in this. I wonder if it is a new microphone or just a special sort of mood?)
Regarding Caligula, a lot of the well known 'crazy' stories about him dont hold much truth, a lot of them were made up hundreds of years later. Regarding the horse thing, Caligula hated the Senate being two-faced yes-men with ulterior motives, which is why he used to get the Senators to do ridiculous things to show them who was really the boss.
He joked about making his horse a Senator to make the other Senators realise how they werent so special and could be replaced by anyone or anything.
He just didnt really enjoy ruling or being told what to do, although in his early years he did really try to do the right thing but he just hated politics.
If you research his upbringing then you'll realise why he was a little twisted and had his head in the clouds :)
Caligula had a sick sense of humour for sure. He liked to toy with people.
He did have some crazy and evil in him but no where near what people attribute him to be. He pissed off a lot of people and romans weren't exaclty unbiased when I come to writing history. He was one of my favourite emperors to learn about though.
You are right, but History is poorly taught today, it is why we keep repeating it.
Usually stories are always embellished, but usually if your a good ruler, they exaggerate how good u were, and vice versa, im sure he was a real asshole lol. And i agree, his upbringing was crazy, also life was so much diffrent, people did weird shit lol. Not that they dont still do.
I think the problem with rulers like Caligula is that after they die, the successors often want them erased from history, or at least anything that would make them seem anything less than a monster. So by the time historians are allowed to write an account of their life, they've already morphed into some crazy character. But he must have been pretty bad to be killed by the Pretorian Guard. They'd normally be the very last people to turn on the Emperor.
@@artfulaspie9775 that is why I totally despise terms like "unprecidented" or the "new norm". Shit always repeat themselves in a different way. People fail to see it.
14:09 ryan george’s characters canonically get power like this
Imagine a forest of corpses, dripping on a buffet
You call that a nightmare? I call that a tuesday 😎🤯😎
You know the fiddle wasn’t invented during the ruling years of Nero, right?
Shut up
He knows very little
@@ryannjames3894 Shut up
Yea...usually his videos are good informed this one...I ended it halfway
Sulliar shut up
So I'm sitting on the toilet watching this and when he mentioned the impaling thing my cheeks clapped shut with a force so strong I parted the toilet waters below
That's just plain gross!
Peter the Great is probably my spirit animal😂
Car horn that sounds like a killed dog may be poor in taste but is top-tier trolling.
Actually Dracul means Dragon. Dracula means Son of the Dragon, in reference to the fact Vlads father was the first leader of the Order.
Where did you get that. Dracul literally translates to *devil* in romanian. the word "dragon" has the same meaning in both romanian and english, also it is spelled exactly the same.
@@kushtalin9180 "Dracul" is derived from the latin word "dracō" which means dragon.
@@xieyie yes, except the word "dracul" doesnt mean dragon in romanian. In latin it may mean dragon, but in romanian definitely not.
@@kushtalin9180 in fact, even in romanian, if you learn a vit of history, you learn the same thing. That it's Vlad the Dragon, from the Dragon order.
@@kushtalin9180 yes it now means devil, in the past it meant dragon. Langaige evolves