True. What's more, my apologies for the off-topic remark. I'll refrain from continuing.

I always thought Vlad's big sin was consolidating power away from the nobles. In history, that's generally how you come down as evil, if you don't finish the job they do a hatchet job on you in the history books. I've often heard that the big difference between Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great was that Peter the Great was better at being bad. :-)