Doctor Doom may be a villain to the outside world, but some people in Latveria loved him. It’s similar to the dictators in the real world. The whole world may hate them but they’ll always have people from their own country who truly believed in them.
From – Infamous Iron Man Vol. 1 #10
his story is similar to vlad the impaler. the world knows his as the brutal warlord but for his people, he is their hero