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Fun fact. Young Vlad Tepeç was just a kid when the Ottoman took Constantinople. The Turks impaled defenders of the city one point, placing them in full view the besieged.
The west failed to aid the Eastern Roman Empire. For centuries. They rather raid them (the fourth "crusade"). So it's just common practice for the West to take an Eastern folk hero and turn him into a villain. Some things never change