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the Venetians decided to help ferry the Turks out of trouble because they'd much rather deal with them than the guy who builds skull towers of the town's people he got done conquering.

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The Venetians made some nice blinds along the same lines as the Ottomans and their stools. I guess times were tough back then and everyone was all uptight and stabby.
I'm glad they mellowed out a bit.

Nero

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It's understandable why they'd be so uptight. Look out your window and there's a horde of guys with bows on horseback rolling toward you with a boner for murder. Some nice blinds and a nice foot stool is welcomed in that scenario.

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Totally agree!

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Romania suffered for hundreds of years under Ottoman rule and from Ottoman invasions, and Vlad stood up to a much stronger and well-armed Muslim enemy.

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ahhhhh yes, our good ole muzzie pals who invaded christian lands since the 7th century.

Something a libtard will never ever mention. doesn't fit the narrative. just like islamic teachings and them being responsible for vast majority of terror groups and attacks.

But, but.. dah crusade doh.
















And muh feels!

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Did Stalin fully have his reputation prior to WWII?

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He had most of it. He became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. Following the death of Lenin, he gained even more power and his stranglehold on the Soviet Union and it's power structure.

He was well known for his brutality well before WWII given his actions during the Bolshevik Revolution, his rise to power, and his actions/purges during his reign (even prior to WWII)

His style and the style of Hitler were different, though. The argument could be made that he was far more brutal than Hitler, particularly with his actions against his own people. He didn't care how similar your ideas were to him, if you pissed him off, you were dead or on your way to a labor camp in Siberia.

Depends who the audience is.

For the Romans? Hannibal was so despised as a war criminal, the Romans (even after defeating him) hunted him down mercilessly.

Hannibal caused great distress to many in Roman society. Hannibal became such a figure of terror that whenever disaster struck, the Roman Senators would exclaim "Hannibal ante portas" ("Hannibal is at the gates!") to express their fear or anxiety.

For most of Western Christendom, Pontius Pilate.

For the Orient (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India) they still despise Alexander the Great to this day and call him something like Alexander the Terrible or Murderer or something like that...they saw him as a genocidal maniac.

Ole boy was a modern day leftist, despised capitalism.

Simon LeGree.

He whipped black people and women.