Children of the night: the strange and epic tale of modern Romania
Decent write-up, but I hate that the writing starts with 2 major mistakes:<p>&gt; Vlad Dracula, the Impaler, the country’s most infamous anti-hero<p>First of all, his name was &quot;Drăculea&quot;, Dracula doesn&#x27;t mean anything in Romanian.
Second, he&#x27;s most definitely a national hero for Romanians, he managed to bring order, eliminate thieves, stand up against the Turks. Through his daring night attack he was very close to kill the sultan himself: he and a small group of soldiers dressed as Turks and entered their camp, causing great confusion and making them kill each other.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Night_Attack_at_Târgoviște" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Night_Attack_at_Târgovi%C...</a><p>We hand wave the impaling as something that was happening at the time in the region. Vlad learned this habit from the Turks, where he was a child prisoner.<p>Many gruesome stories about him are just invented by the German merchants that had beefs with him.