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* (The Untold Story of Mass Privatization)Starting from November 3, 2023, the newspaper BURSA initiates an unprecedented campaign of information and revelations regarding the privatization process in Romania, particularly the mass privatization process and the reality of the millions of shareholders of financial investment companies (formerly private property funds).
The castle is home to one of the few paintings of the cruel 15th-century prince, and this Halloween its curators are trying to bring the real historical figure out from the chilling shadow of the monster invented by the Irish writer Bram Stoker.
Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula, inspired the vampire in Bram Stoker’s novel. Vlad was no ghoulish fiend, though, for all his cruelty, as curators at his family’s castle in Austria emphasise.
Exactly how was an Orthodox Christian aristocrat transformed into the most infamous bloodsucking vampire of all time? And is anti-Christian historical revisionism to blame?
From vampires to witches and werewolves, here's how they became Halloween monsters.