History buffs, did Vlad the Impaler, the real Dracula of Romania,ever do

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anything nice for somebody? ? When he wasn't directing mass impalings of men, woman, and children, of course. And was he religious?
 
He is actually regarded as a hero in part of what was previously Wallachia (parts of modern Romania), since he successfully kept the Ottomans and Hungarians out of the kingdom (their borders surrounded Wallachia)
 
Vlad Dracul's legend made lots of money for folks in Hollywood.
I think his aim was to enforce laws based on some code of morality. He used these horrors to punish those he suspected of irreligious leanings.
 
All accounts of his life describe him as ruthless, but only the ones originating from his Saxon detractors paint him as sadistic or insane. That said, Vlad was a bit over the top, even for a very violent era.
Romanian folklore and poetry, on the other hand, paints Vlad as a hero with a reputation in his native country as a man who stood up to both foreign and domestic enemies,
Vlad was nominally a Christian, although there is little evidence that he was any more religious than the average despot of that era.
 
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