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He was an incompetant monster and damn that's an exemplary case.
Oh, it gets better. The Romanian government couldn't feed all the orphans because his dumbass tried to turn a bread basket with significant oil reserves into an industrial powerhouse (so he could have more guns), burning a lot of the oil that the economy relied on to pay for services to do it, so he came up with the bright idea of just giving them micro blood transfusions.
Of untested blood. With often unsterilized needles. Up to 120 times in a month.
During the AIDs epidemic.
They kind of mention this but the author didn't seem to realize it was actually supposed to be a replacement for food instead of a medical procedure.
where the fuck did they get all that blood --
oooooh
Yeah they had some leftover from the vampire times.