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<p>[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3266005, member: 77704"]History is always written by the victors. Hollywood esp. has personified emperors such as Commodus/ Nero/ Caligula as monsters....how much of that is made up fiction? Look at during WW2, the USSR and "Uncle Joe" were the good guys, then with the advent of the Cold War, the Soviet Union became the "bogeyman" and Stalin the symbol of evil....rightly so. In Communist China, Mao is still revered even though his ruthless tyranny killed more people then Stalin. Seen a movie where Vlad Tepes "the Impaler" was a folk hero fighting the Ottoman Turks!</p><p>In reality the most bloodthirsty thug in history. There where of course great historical figures with no blemishes, great captains of history like Cyrus the Great, Hannibal, Friedrich II the Great, Sulieman the Magnificent, Philip II of Macedon, Karl V Holy Roman Emperor.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 3266005, member: 77704"]History is always written by the victors. Hollywood esp. has personified emperors such as Commodus/ Nero/ Caligula as monsters....how much of that is made up fiction? Look at during WW2, the USSR and "Uncle Joe" were the good guys, then with the advent of the Cold War, the Soviet Union became the "bogeyman" and Stalin the symbol of evil....rightly so. In Communist China, Mao is still revered even though his ruthless tyranny killed more people then Stalin. Seen a movie where Vlad Tepes "the Impaler" was a folk hero fighting the Ottoman Turks! In reality the most bloodthirsty thug in history. There where of course great historical figures with no blemishes, great captains of history like Cyrus the Great, Hannibal, Friedrich II the Great, Sulieman the Magnificent, Philip II of Macedon, Karl V Holy Roman Emperor.....[/QUOTE]
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