Answer: Political dissenters, traitors, collaborators.
Explanation:
In literature, art, film, and music, Vlad Tepes is promoted as a person who, under his characteristics, contains certain non-elemental elements, a person whose name is bound by many myths such as vampirism and the like. Science, however, has a somewhat more rational judgment on this personality. He spent much of his reign as an Ottoman vassal. He paid a sum to maintain autonomy in the area under his administration.
History says that the government has brutally dealt with its dissenters, but not to the extent that it is presented through literary literature and the arts. There were indeed cases of stick-picking, and he did so primarily to those he thought were working against his interests. The ruler's seal was red (alluding to blood) and in the form of a dragon, which is why it is associated with many myths and legends outside the historical framework.
