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#AskAbhijit 111: History, Geopolitics, Current Affairs

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Vlad the Impaler - The Only Language the Ottomans Understand

He impaled tens of thousands, maybe 20, 30, forty thousand turkish and bulgarian soldiers in one location. It's like a forest of impaled corpses. Vlad knew which language the turks spoke, and he spoke to them in their language. He was called vra vlad drakulia, vlad the dragon. The de the irish writer, the british writer, bram stoker, took inspiration from this region,. There there are these folk tales of nosperato the vampire. And he tied that with the name of this lineage, racolia, and he created thi this character of dracula rid - inspired by lad traculia

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