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While history remembers Vlad the Impaler as the face of medieval terror, the Ottoman Sultans knew the real threat came from his cousin. Stephen the Great of Moldavia was the strategic mastermind who turned a fractured principality into the graveyard where empires came to die. This is the brutal, unromanticized story of how one man held the line against the most powerful military force on the planet for nearly half a century.

Unlike the theatrical legends surrounding Dracula, Stephen's story is built on cold calculation and irreversible choices. From the Christmas night massacre at Baia where he burned a Hungarian army alive, to the foggy marshes of Vaslui where forty thousand peasants annihilated one hundred twenty thousand Ottoman elites, Stephen proved that survival requires a willingness to become what your enemies fear most. We explore the psychology of a ruler who burned his own towns, executed his own generals, and betrayed his own blood brother to save his country.
In this video, we will cover:

The wedding feast massacre that orphaned Stephen and forged his worldview.
The strategic bond and eventual betrayal between Stephen and Vlad Dracula.
The siege of Chilia: when Stephen chose country over cousin.
The Battle of Vaslui: the greatest Ottoman military defeat before the modern era.
The White Valley: where Stephen's army was annihilated but his will never broke.
The final masterstroke: how surrender became survival.
By the time of his death in fifteen oh four, Stephen the Great had fought forty-seven battles, built forty-four churches, and created a legacy of blood and stone that allowed Romanian culture to survive centuries of Ottoman domination. Join Mementos Historians as we uncover why the Pope called him the "Athlete of Christ" while the Ottomans called him the nightmare that wouldn't die.
HISTORICAL SOURCES:

The Annals of Stephen the Great (Medieval Moldavian Chronicles)
Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time by Franz Babinger
A History of Romania by Kurt W. Treptow
Stephen the Great and the Ottoman Empire by Radu Florescu
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