If Tesla was born 70 years later… M.

Novakovic

If Tesla was born 70 years later, he

almost certainly would be murdered in
Croatian WWII death camp- Only,
because he was Serb!

Croats are obsessed with “national purity”, that’s why they should be proud of
Nikola Tesla- He is one of “the purest Serbs” to ever walking the Earth…

It doesn’t pass a day- that I don’t bump into some social media, internet blog, news agency
or official political statement- which is misrepresenting the facts about one of the greatest
world scientists: Nikola Tesla.

The most common, and the most cynical, misrepresentation is that Tesla is Croatian
scientist. To be precise, that Tesla himself was Croat. Such misrepresentation couldn’t be
further from the truth.

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Nikola Tesla1 was born

on July 10 th, 1856 in
Serbian village
Smiljan, near town of
Gospic, in Serbian
autonomous region
Krajina (Military
Frontier) within
Austrian-Hungarian
Empire. What we call today: State of Croatia, at that time simply did not exist.

His Family Tree proves that he would be considered under any “ethnical standard”- as one
of “the purest Serbs”: His father Milutin Tesla was Serb, Orthodox Christian Priest. His
mother Georgina, nicknamed “Djuka” was born in Serbian Orthodox Christian family; her
father was also a Serbian priest. In 1856 th year, newborn Nikola Tesla was baptized as
Christian in the Serbian Orthodox church “Saint Peter & Paul”, where his father served as a
Serbian priest.

Prior to WWII, Tesla’s village Smiljan was purely Serbian, according to the statistics from
1941, in this small village were living 621 Serbs.

Arrival of Croatian Führer Pavelic meant extermination of all Teslas in Nikola

Tesla’ birth place in Krajina…

Soon after Hitler started WWII and Germany & Italy

invaded Kingdom of Yugoslavia on April 6 th, 1941, the
Croatian Nazi brand, called Ustasha, seized the state control
in Croatia. The home based, leading Ustasha Slavko
Kvaternik took control over the police in a Croatian capital
Zagreb. Meanwhile the Croatian “Führer” and a founder of
Ustasha movement, Dr Ante Pavelic, who was in exile in
Italy (trying to avoid the death sentence- he was convicted to, by
Yugoslavian court, due to his terrorist activity) returned to Croatia on April 17 th, accompanied
by several hundreds of hard-core Ustasha2 paramilitary troops.

1 Nikola Tesla (/ˈtɛslə/; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [nikoːla
tesla]; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer,
mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of
the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. (Wikipedia)
2 Ustasha movement was a Croatian WWII Nazi brand, which exceeded their masters - German

Nazis in the barbaric atrocities, against Jews and Serbs

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Upon his arrival, Pavelic promoted himself to the supreme Chief of State (in Croatian
“Poglavnik”- which was corresponding to the Führer’ title in Hitler’s Nazi Germany). Soon
Pavelic met with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini offering them loyalty and military
alliance. In same time he declared the Independent State of Croatia (NDH)3 which with
Hitler’ blessing expanded beyond nowadays Croatia, covering the entire Bosnia &
Herzegovina, and some parts of Monte Negro and Serbia.

“Führer Pavelic” started massing Ustasha Nazi military formations and regular Croatian
army, called “Domobrans”, with only one strategic goal in his mind - creating ethnically
pure Independent State of Croatia, free from all Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and from other
“non-pure Croats”.

His formula for creation of pure ethnic Croatian state- in which, according to CIA study
from 1995, at the end of 19 th century, one quarter of population were making Serbs- was:
1/3 Serbs to be killed, 1/3 to be expelled and 1/3 to be converted (forcibly) to Roman
Catholicism, and then “registered as Croats”! For his “work” Pavelic gained full support
from Vatican and Croatian Roman-Catholic church, namely from Croatian Archbishop
Alojzije Stepinac.

…End, one of the biggest (proportionally), and the most bestial genocides in WWII could
begin…

Even the notorious Gestapo was appalled with Croatian savagery and bestiality
towards Serbian civilians. According to Gestapo statistics, Croatian nationalist in
first 8 months of WWII murdered at least 300,000 Serbs. Their report to Reichsführer
SS Heinrich Himmler, dated February 17, 1942, states next:

“Increased activity of the bands [of rebels] is chiefly due to atrocities carried out
by Ustasha units in Croatia against the Orthodox population. The Ustasha
committed their deeds in a bestial manner not only against males of conscript age,
but especially against helpless old people, women and children. The number of
the Orthodox that the Croats have massacred and sadistically tortured to death is
about three hundred thousand”

Tesla’s home town Gospic was “a ground zero” for Croatian genocide over Serbs

Sadly, if nowadays you decide to visit Tesla’s home village Smiljan, you wouldn’t be able
to find any of his relatives, or even Serbian neighbours, at least not above the ground; You
might be able to find them under the ground in the mass graves, but only with a help from
the local guide, because even today, in 21 st century, the democratic EU member Republic of

3 In Croatian language: Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska (NDH)

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Croatia doesn’t allow their graves to be

visibly marked. Especially not to be
marked with the Serbian Cyrillic letter.

You might think that modern Croatian

government is ashamed of own
“Ustasha Legacy”, and that is why they
don’t want the world to find out that all
Tesla’ relatives and neighbours were
savagely murdered and thrown into the
mass graves or nearby caves. You
couldn’t be more wrong, modern
Croatia, which never was pacified after WWII, and never had to face own ghosts from the
past (like Germany did) actually is very proud of its state predecessor from WWII- Nazi
puppet state “NDH”.

On August 2nd, 1941, on one of the biggest Serbian Orthodox Christian holidays- “Saint
Ilija”, Ustasha Nazi units, assisted by the local Croatian villagers, surrounded Tesla’s home
village Smiljan which numbered 621 Serbian residents, and savagely tortured, raped and
murdered all Serbs, they could capture, including little babies, children, women, and
elderly. On that day they brutally killed 506 innocent people…

…In following days Croats killed 52 more Serbs from Smiljan, making the total number of
innocent victims at 568. The detailed testimony of this massacre was provided by the
Croatian witness Ante Antunovic, before Yugoslavian (Croatian) court, in Tesla’s home
town, Gospic, on June 6th, 1952. He testified that Ustasha raid and massacre was led by the
Ustasha commander, of nearby Croatian concentration camp “Jadovno”, Rudolf Ric 4 and
two lower ranks Ustasha: Joso Adzija and Dragan Devcic. Eyewitness Antunovic provided
very horrific account of this atrocity, which was intended to wipe out the Tesla’s home
village from the face of Earth…

4 Croatian concentration camp “Jadovno” was “the base camp” for the chain of smaller camps in
Lika (Knin) Krajina region specifically designated to exterminate local Serbian population during
WWII (today this is a “Serb-Free Region” in South/West of proud EU member- Independent
Croatian Republic). The main staging point for captured Serbian civilians - before they were
delivered for “final solution”, to “Jadovno Collection Center” - was Tesla’s home town Gospic.
Prisoners were brought there via rail, in “cattle wagons” in horrific conditions. Only in the
Concentration Camp “Jadovno” Croatian Ustasha killed, between 11 th April and 21 st August 1941
(just in 4 months), 40,123 Serbs and Jews, aging from newborns to elderly peo ple. 38,010 murdered
were Serbs, and 1,998 Jews. (The data for other “Jadovno” camps was not available to this writer.)

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In Tesla’s birthplace Smiljan, 119 of his relatives were savagely murdered,

including newborn babies, children, women, elderly…

….Their only guilt was: They were Serbs

…Among the victims, of the 1941 Croatian/Ustasha

massacre in Smiljan, were 119 Tesla’ relatives and 127
Serbian children, between age of 1 and 15 years. The
most brutal aspect of this genocidal crime was that
Croats executors murdered with knives 27 newborn
babies and set them on fire, those small babies were
not even baptized- so they remained the nameless
victims. Twelve victims of “St Ilija Massacre” were
elderly people, aged 80 years and plus…

…During the massacre of Smiljan’ residents Croatian executors razed to the ground Tesla’s
birth home and Serbian Orthodox church “Saint Peter and Paul”(in which his father served
as a priest), where Nikola Tesla was baptized as the newborn baby. Couple dozens of
Smiljan’ residents initially avoided capture, but they had been hunted down until the end
of WWII (and the end of the Croatian Independent State- NDH). Thirty of them were captured
by Ustasha and Croatian neighbours, on March 5 th 1945, and hanged from the trees, posts
and other road marks, leading to the ruins of Tesla’ home, in Smiljan.

Fifty years after Croatian nationalists joined Nazi Germany and started their “liberation
war” for the ethnically pure Independent Croatian State (NDH) during which they
murdered at least one million of Serbs- The new Croatian “war for independence” started,
and once again the new genocidal atrocities were committed over remaining surviving
Krajina Serbs.

In 1991- as the head of the Croatian State (read: Führer) was appointed former Yugoslavian
general Franjo Tudjman. He will be remembered as publically stating that he was “very
glad that his wife was neither Jew nor Serb.” Then, Croatian nationalists, waving old
Ustasha flags (and often Nazi “swastika flag”), and led by general Tudjman, launched the
illegal war against federal Yugoslavian government, and repeated WWII atrocities against
their Serbian neighbours…

…And this time, among the first Serbs marked for the extermination by Croatian
nationalists (with the green light from general Tudjman 5), were again Tesla’s neighbours from
his home village Smiljan, and his home town Gospic.

5During 1995, general Franjo Tudjman launched two huge (para)military operations designed to
capture Serb held regions (Krajina’s Serbs did not accept unilateral Croatian separation, and they insisted
on staying in Yugoslavia, for which they had legal rights under Yugoslavian constitution) in Slavonia and

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Croatian nationalists finally recognized Nikola Tesla’ importance- They blew up

his monument, in his hometown of Gospic…

EU sponsored, “Democratic Croatian government” is (at

present time) making significant efforts to present Serb
Nikola Tesla, as one of the greatest Croatian scientists.
Ironically, one of the first brave acts of Croatian
nationalists, during “1991 Independence War”, was to
blow up Tesla’s monument in his home town Gospic, in
1991. Then in 1992, Croatian nationalists razed to the
ground Serbian Orthodox Church “Saint George”, again in
Tesla’s home town Gospic. But the worst was yet to
come…

…As the Serbian academic and journalist Zdravko Krstanovic described: “The final
extermination act of Smiljan’ Serbs (in Tesla’ home village) took place during “Croatian
Independence War” in 90ies, when Croats decided to eliminate handful of remaining and
surviving Serbs in Smiljan, mostly elderly people. In 1991, in Smiljan, Croatian nationalists
had tortured and killed Jovo & Rada Bogic, Jovo Lemaic, Mica & Milan Pejnovic, and
Bogdan Rajcevic.

Same year in the fall, they killed 80 year old man Lukica Pejnovic, while he was attending
crops. The last surviving elderly Serb from Smiljan, who felt victim to the “Croatian
liberators”, was Borka Vranes, born in 1926. She was brutally murdered and set on fire, in
Tesla’s home town of Gospic in 1993. Her only guilt- she was a Serb.

Eleven “Tesla” surnames are “engraved” at the Croatian memorial center

Jasenovac- by many accounts a place of the most horrific Nazi death camp in
WWII; where at least 700,000 Serbs and Jews were slaughtered, exclusively with
the knives and other butchery tools…

Lika (Serbian Krajinas), and expel Serbs from Croatia. During the Croatian spring military operation
“Lightning”, Serbs were expelled from Slavonia Krajina, with the silent US approval. During the
summer military operation “Storm”, Serbs were expelled from “Lika Krajina” with the active US
support (military, intelligence and political). These operations resulted in expulsion of around 400,000
Serbs from Croatia, and were, at that time, described by many mainstream media (including
Western) as the biggest ethnic cleansing in Europe since WWII. Most of Serbs, who could not flee
Croatia during these ethnic cleansing operations, were brutally murdered at the spot. These victims
were mostly elderly and disabled Serbs…

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For Croatian authorities, which are otherwise very skilful in hiding own (historical)
atrocities, today is impossible to deny, that Tesla’ relatives were mercilessl y hunted down
and killed, only because they were Serbs. The evidence about this is preserved and
presented in the Croatian state’ ran “Memorial Center Jasenovac”. Concentration camp
Jasenovac, ran by Ustasha- and its chain of smaller camps, including the special camps
designated for Serbian & Jewish children and women- was probably the most savage, and
the biggest (proportionally) Nazi concentration camp in WWII Europe.

Yugoslavian historians put the number of Serbs killed in Jasenovac to 700,000. Simon
Wiesenthal Center puts the number of killed Serbs in Jasenovac camp to 500,000. Probably
one of the most “legally credible” testimony was of Alexandar Arnon, during the trial of
Adolf Eichmann in 1961, he puts the number of Jasenovac victims to 600,000. But German
Wehrmacht sources from WWII should be taken as credible too- Ernst Fick estimated that
by 1944, in Jasenovac were murdered at least 700,000 Serbs (which is consistent with the
Yugoslavian historical archives and as such likely more accurate)…

…Any way, most of the original Ustasha archives were destroyed intentionally, not only by
Croats, but by the communists too, who (led by Croat Josip Broz Tito) seized the power in
Yugoslavia, in the aftermath of WWII,
and then razed the Jasenovac
concentration camp to the ground,
destroying or seizing original
documents, even forbidding (for
decades) surviving family members of
Jasenovac victims to visit the former
death camp and pay respect to their
loved ones.

Miraculously, some evidence was

preserved, from which we can see that some of Tesla’ relatives were deported to this
notorious Croatian concentration camp, to be there savagely murdered. From the
“Jasenovac Memorial” documents, we can verify that at least 11 Teslas were the victims of
this horrific Ustasha’ death camp:

Name Father ‘name DOB (they all were killed from 1942 to 1944)

1. Tesla Boja (Pane) 1889

2. Tesla Boja (Savo) 1894
3. Tesla Dusan (Petar) 1913
4. Tesla Ilija (Nikola) 1882
5. Tesla Jelica
6. Tesla Lazo (Rade) 1903 – born in Tesla’ hometown Gospic
7. Tesla Mile

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8. Tesla Milivoje (Andrija)1925

9. Tesla Milos (Djuro) 1902
10. Tesla Sava 1873
11. Tesla Stevo 1926

Croatian government, which is running Tesla memorial center in Smiljan,

not only denies any historical existence of Serbs in the region- It uses the
pejorative and misleading Ustasha vocabulary, in its “memorial
presentation”, to describe the original Serbian residents…

If at present time you decide to visit the “Nikola Tesla Memorial Center” (NTMC),
established in 2006 by the Croatian government (GOC), in his home village Smiljan, its
sterile appearance might remind you of a scene from some horror movie- The village is
completely “depopulated” from its original Serbian residents, and from all Tesla’s
relatives…

…They are still “there”, but you won’t be able

to find them above the ground, because they
have been thrown into the unmarked mass (or
single) graves, during two “Croatian
Independence Wars”, in last century. To be
more precise, after WWII surviving Serbs
from Smiljan collected most of the remains of
their murdered relatives and neighbours, and
buried them just ten meters behind the church, in a marked mass grave, with tombstone
which listed in Serbian Cyrillic letter the names of Smiljan’ victims.

In 90ies, Croatian nationalists who hate not only Serbs, but their Cyrillic letter too as a very
recognizable symbol of Serbian existence, destroyed the writing on the tombstone, defacto
turning it again into an unmarked mass grave. So far modern Croatian government (which
is very nationalistic and proud of its WWII NDH legacy) is refusing to restore the original
Cyrillic encryption.

If there weren’t for the regular visitors, bussed regularly to Smiljan village, all you would
be able to hear, would be the eerie sound of a dead place. But as I said, the visitors are
coming steadily, many people from the around the world would like to see the original
birthplace of one of the greatest world scientists in the mankind history. What they
wouldn’t be able to see- that is the original Tesla’ home where he was born and the original

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Serbian Orthodox Christian church where his father attended service as a Serbian priest,
because they were completely destroyed by the “Croatian warriors for the independence” 6

…They don’t know why there are no original Serbian residents in this originally Serbian
village, they don’t know why there are no more surviving Teslas in Nikola Tesla’ birth
place, they don’t know why the original historic buildings are replaced by the fake ones,
they don’t know why there is no single mention of words: “Serb” or “Serbian” in NTMC
gallery or on the site presentation…

…They don’t know, because the modern and “democratic” Croatian government simply
doesn’t want them to know!

- And at the end of the day, for the Croats this (Tesla’ birth place) is just the profitable
business- they are charging the tourists, descending daily on Smiljan, around 7
Euros for a single visit. But these visitors don’t know the “horrific ghost story” and
real truth behind such sterile memorial presentation.

I went carefully through their site presentation and I

couldn’t find a single word that would refer to Krajina,
Gospic or Smiljan residents, as the Serbian entities-
which they, clearly and historically proven, were. In fact,
I couldn’t find any reference to the words: Serb, Serbs or
Serbian- except in one single sentence, which provided a
general reference to the general existence of Serbian
Orthodox Church, and pointed at the general presence of
Serbs in some other parts of Croatia. So, according to
modern Croatian authorities Serbs never lived in Tesla’s
Krajina!?

In fact, what was very offending to me, and to any other Serb for that matter (I would
assume), Croatian references to Krajina Serbs were visibly pejorative, racially charged, and
obviously borrowed from the old genocidal Ustasha ideology- and the nationalist ideology,
of its historical founder, Dr Ante Starcevic7…

…NTMC internet presentation describes the existence of “Croatian/Slavonian Krajina”

under Austrian Kingdom military rule, at the time Tesla was born, but it doesn’t mention
or refer in any manner that it was actually a Serbian autonomous region “Krajina”, and that
Croatian state simply did not exist then.

6”First in WWII, then Tesla’ birth village was again destroyed in 90ies…
7Ante Starčević (23 May 1823 – 28 February 1896), was a Croatian politician and writer. His works
are considered to have laid the foundations for Croatian nationalism and he is often referred to as
"Father of the Homeland" by Croats. – from Wikipedia

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I already mentioned that Croatian authorities were very careful to avoid any reference to
Serbian existence in Krajina (Lika), but what I find very troubling is the nationalistic and
pejorative language borrowed from the Ustasha ideology, used here to describe the
existence of Krajina’ native people (we already know they were by large majority Serbs,
including Tesla family- what better proof is than Tesla’s birth village itself, which was purely
Serbian, until Croats exterminated all its residents during their “independence wars”).

In NTMC presentation, section “Short history of Tesla’ homeland”, native Krajina people
are either described as “Vlachs8”, Orthodox (Christians), or Greek/Misfits (gerčko-
nesjedinjeni). Only hard-core Croatian nationalists would know that all these expressions
refer, either in a pejorative or in a misleading manner, to the native Serbian people.
Ordinary Croatian citizens or foreign visitors, who depend of the official site presentation,
would never know that NTMC nationalistic language is actually referring to the native
Serbian people.

Behind Führer Pavelic’ “Orthodox wording” is hiding the old Ustasha project of
creating “universal” Croatian nation, regardless of the religious background of
its “loyal subjects”

Tesla Memorial Center is, among other expressions, when referring to the original Krajina
residents, using “the Orthodox” adjective, strictly avoiding to attach it to the Serbian ethnic
group- where it belongs. At first sight it might look that somehow Serbs are being recognized at
least indirectly, but that is not here the case.

The fake Orthodox Christian Church under the name:

“Croatian Orthodox Christian Church” was created during
WWII in Zagreb (NDH capital), upon the order of “Führer
Pavelic” himself, on April 3rd, 1942. Officially it was done
“to improve the status of Serbs”, but in reality it was done
from two main reasons: firstly, to convince Serbs that they
can practice their religion as long as they become Croats;
secondly, to create division within canonized Serbian
Orthodox Christian Church.

My research of this topic revealed that NDH Supreme military leader Pavelic was trying to
achieve only one goal- to populate Independent Croatia with only Croats, regardless of their
religious background. We can see that logic in his acceptance of Bosnian Muslims as pure

8Vlachs (English: /vlɑːk, vlæk/, or rarely /vlɑːx/) is an exonym referring to Eastern Romance-
speaking peoples found throughout Eastern and Southeastern Europe (Romanians, Moldovans and
Armenians)- Wikipedia

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Croats; he even nicknamed them a “Croatian Flowers”. While NDH spiritual leader, Catholic
Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac, was aiming to convert all NDH “loyal subjects” to Catholicism,
and he did not care much if they remain ethnically, for some time, Serbs, or Bosnians- because
he knew, from the historical experience, that they eventually will accept a new Croatian
identity.

The recent revival of this Pavelic’ Ustasha project in modern Croatia only proves this theory-
Croatian nationalist and Catholic Ive Matanovic has announced on March 12th, 2010 creation of
“The Croatian Orthodox Christian Church” in city of Zadar. Couple months later, on September
10th 2010 Croatian nationalists (very probably under the guidance of one of many Croatian
security services) have formed “The Association of Croatian Orthodox Believers” ACOB, and to
remove any suspicion about their intention, they openly stated their goal:

“ACOB has a goal of: forming the Autocephalous Croatian Orthodox Church and free self-
identification of Orthodox Christians as Croatian nationals”.

Croatian ran “Nikola Tesla Memorial Center” is used, not to celebrate the world
renowned Serbian scientist, but to cover the genocidal acts, that were committed
against Tesla relatives and 500 Smiljan’ villagers in recent history…

The NTMC false presentation of the Krajina (Lika) ethnic picture is hard to understand
from the logical point (we understand it very well from the irrational point of Croatian
nationalistic hatred of ethnic Serbs) because the official census is proving that in Tesla’
Krajina, in 1991 Serbs (remaining survivors of Croatian WWII genocide) were still making
majority of the regional population. According to this Croatian census, in Krajina region
were 41,546 Serbs (50.12%) and 37,719 Croats (45.50%). Prior to WWII (and following
Croatian genocide over Serbs), this region had over 200,000 (mostly Serbian) residents.

During WWII the term “Vlach” was a favorite (pejorative) Ustasha term9 to describe Serbs
within their Nazi puppet state “NDH”, and in general, elsewhere. Along with notorious
WWII (1941) Croatian “Führer” Pavelic and modern (1991) Croatian “Führer” Tudjman
(both are celebrated by the Croatian nationalists and GOC 10 as a modern "Fathers of the
Homeland") - the pejorative “Vlach description of Serbs” was frequently used by the
original Croatian “Father of the Homeland”, and hard-core national ideologist, Ante
Starcevic, who lived in the late 19 th century. On the top of the pejorative “Vlach” term,

9 This term was originally Turkish pejorative word (from the Ottoman Empire period and Islamic
invasion of Southern Europe) used to describe Serbs as “subhuman”- it was later gladly “reused” by
the Croatian nationalists, until present time
10 Government of Croatia

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Starcevic’ linguistic invention: “Greek/Misfits11”, was used here by NTMC, to describe

Tesla’s Krajina people.

Coincidentally Ante Starcevic was born in Krajina (Lika) too,

not too far from Tesla’ birth village. He was born in the
village of Zitnik, and Gospic was his home town too.
Ironically (for one “great Croatian nationalist”) he was born to a
family of a Croatian father and Orthodox (Serbian) mother.
Probably his denial 12 of own Serbian roots was the major
force behind his unreasonable ethnic and religious hatred
against Serbs. His hatred for the Serbs went so far, that he
published in 1876 the book with title: “Pasmina SlavoSerbska
po Hrvatskoj” in Croatian language- which can be translated
as: “Animal Slavic/Serb Breed in Croatia”. His book
describes how Croatia should be “ethnically purified” (of
Serbs).

``He spoke as of the animal breeds and used the word "breed" to mark the people
and nations which he saw as cursed and lower ranked races.``

Starcevic had demonstrated a demonic hatred for Serbs, and later this “demonic ideology
of hatred” will be adopted by all nationalistic Croatian regimes, from Pavelic’ Ustasha,
Tudjman Neo-Nazi, to the present one “EU housed”, that can be described without
exaggeration as Neo-Ustasha regime. He is certainly more celebrated “scientist” in Croatia,
then one Nikola Tesla. And here is what Starcevic used to say about Serbs, on the top of
describing them as an “animal breed”, and “lower human beings” than the Jews:

"The Jews are less harmful than the Slavoserbs. For the Jews care for themselves
and their people ... but the Slavoserbs are always for the evil: if they cannot gain a
benefit, then they tend to harm the good or just affair, or to harm those who are
for the affair."

…But Starcevic won’t be remembered, at least not world-wide, as a Serbian hater- An

ignorant global audience, especially Western, couldn’t care less about the (historically

11Used by Starcevic to refer, in pejorative manner, to Serbs as the “outcasts from Christian ity”
12A frantically denial of Serbian roots (accompanied by ethnic and religious hatred) is a very
common feeling among Croatian hard-core nationalists, because the majority of the modern
Croatian nation was achieved by (forcibly) converting Orthodox peop le (Serbs) into Catholics. How
far that hatred of any connection with Serbs would go, the best is described in the words of the
Croatian priest Fra Srećko Perić, who addressed villagers and Ustasha soldiers, from the altar of
Catholic Church in Livanj - Bosnia, in 1941, with next words: “Croatian brothers go and slaughter
all Serbs. First slaughter my sister who is married to Serb (and her family). When you finish the job,
come back to me in church, where I will accept your confession and give you absolution of all of
your sins.”

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proven) tragic fate of Serbs in last two world wars (and previously during 5 century genocidal
Ottoman Islamic rule), and most recently in Yugoslavian civil wars, due to their perception
of Serbs as “Little Russians”- He will be remembered globally (at least within the academic
society- and mostly by the Jewish intellectuals) as an enormous Jew hater. As Croatian
historians of Jewish origin Gross and Goldstein described him as a notorious racist and an
anti-Semite- and confirmation for such judgment provided Dr Ante Starcevic in his own
words:

"Jews are the breed, except a few, without any morality and without any
homeland, the breed of which every unit strives to its personal gain, or to its
relatives' gain. To let the Jews to participate in public life is dangerous: throw a
piece of mud in a glass of the clearest water – then all the water will be puddled.
That way the Jews spoiled and poisoned the French people too much".

If you believe that all of this, cited here in my analysis, would disqualify one proven “Jew
and Serb Hater”, like it was Ante Starcevic, from the official & “honorable” Croatian
history- then you are dead wrong. Everything is just the opposite…

If you would expect that “modern Croatian folks” and allegedly civilized EU
citizens, from the Tesla’s hometown Gospic, would be nowadays very proud of
this extraordinary man, who is worldwide considered to be one of the greatest
world minds ever- You couldn’t be more wrong…

…It is impossible to talk about Tesla’s birthplace and his hometown in historical terms and
not to mention Dr Ante Starcevic, he was 33 years older than Nikola Tesla, but certainly
their life patterns crossed somewhere and at some point. Luckily for Tesla, Starcevic’
philosophy and political teachings were at that time only at theoretical sphere, so young
Tesla did not have to die young (according to Starcevic ideology, he as a Serb was an animal
species and not human). From the previous chapters of this analysis we saw that 119 Tesla’
relatives had to die in WWII in the hands of Croatian Nazi brand Ustasha, who adopted
and fully applied Starcevic’ racist ideology of hatred- towards Jews and Serbs.

So, if you nowadays walk into the Tesla’ hometown Gospic, in Lika region, in S/W Croatia,
and if you visit the city’s tourist bureau, you will notice that their official city presentation
is listing, as the greatest Gospic’ citizen: Ante Starcevic, then as “the second greatest” is
listed Nikola Tesla. Well informed and honest locals would tell you that Tesla (as a Serb) is
lucky to be mentioned in city presentation at all- and that Tesla probably was included in
this presentation due to pressure from central Croatian government, which realized that for
the image of the country probably would be a smart idea to celebrate Nikola Tesla (but in
same time to avoid any mentioning of his Serbian roots)…

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…Gospic is today completely ethnically cleansed of Serbs, and pretty much every single
local you would bump in the streets is “a pure Croat”, and if you try to engage them in talk
about their former neighbour, and one of the world most famous scientists in the world 13
Serb Nikola Tesla, you really would get a taste what is a life of the few remaining
(surviving) Serbs in the modern democratic Croatia- proud EU member state…

…Respectable Croatian national paper

“Jutarnji”, in April 2014 conducted a survey
and published an article about “feelings”
among Gospic’ citizens, for their former
townsfolk-Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla.
Reporter Romina Peritz wrote: “It is difficult to
avoid feeling that for the Gospic’ municipality
Nikola Tesla was more of the burden, than he
was a pride.”

Peritz is highlighting the fact that as the most important historical figure in Gospic is
favored “The father of Nazi-Ustasha Ideology 14” Ante Starcevic and that is why Tesla was
simply marginalized. She is pointing to fact that 70 years anniversary of Tesla’ death were
commemorated worldwide, but not in his hometown. Simply, the local authorities decided
that on January 7th 2012 the “Nikola Tesla Memorial Center” in Smiljan, should be closed-
refusing even to pay a formal respect in a form of a protocolled “laying a wreath” at Tesla’
monument at NTMC. Journalist R. Peritz asserted that only motivation for such animo sity
against dead scientist was the simple fact that he was a Serb.

One local woman was shouting at Peritz: “He (Tesla) got monument in Smiljan, isn’t that
enough?”(According to “Jutarnji”) No one should be surprised with such outpour of ethnic
hatred towards Serbs, even the dead ones, in one (one of many in modern Croatia) completely
ethnically cleansed city. As I mentioned before, in 1991 “Croatian independence warriors”
blew up the Tesla monument in Gospic, furthermore they renamed the “Nikola Tesla” ci ty
square into “Ante Starcevic”. But that wasn’t the worst-

“Gospic Massacre”- The day when Tesla’ countrymen were hunted down and
mercilessly killed- Happened in Tesla’ hometown, in modern Croatia…

As we learned from the previous chapters during WWII Gospic was Ground Zero for
extermination of Jews and Serbs, in this part of “Independent Croatia”, and that Tesla’

13 Linkedin.com is presenting Nikola Tesla @ #6 position as “a one of the greatest scientists of all
times”
14 "The Ustasha ideological system was just a replica of the traditional pure Croatian nationalism of

Ante Starcevic.” – Academic (www.enacademic.com)

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birth village was completely whipped out from the face of Earth, and his 119 relatives were
brutally murdered by Croatian nationalists. We learned as well that WWII atrocities were
repeated in Smiljan in 1990ies, when remaining eight elderly Serbs were brutally
murdered.

What we did not mention, and what is important in understanding this systematic
pathology of hatred against Serbs in Tesla’ birthplace, is: that during the last Croatian
independence war, Gospic became once again the Ground Zero for extermination of local
Serbs- which is supported with hefty evidence, coming not only from International
authorities, but from the Croatian sources as well. The events that took place in Gospic
during the last 2 weeks in October 1991 are described in court and historical documents as
“The Gospic Massacre”.

Croatian national guard (118th

Infantry Brigade), which was under
direct command of the official
Zagreb15, rounded between 100 and
120 Serbs and simply murdered them
without any trial or any proven guilt.
Most of them were prior to the
execution tortured. The Croatian
soldiers then threw 10 bodies of dead
Serbs in the septic tank, they burned
24 others and threw them in the
fields of Gospic outskirts, 18 dead
Serbs were thrown in the mass grave,
and six others were buried in shallow unmarked graves. According to official documents
123 Gospic’ Serbs were missing in the aftermath of “Croatian military action”, most of them
were never found. Their property was looted and stolen by Croatian soldiers and local
Croats. Under the international pressure in 2000 some of the Croatian officers and s oldiers
were indicted and sentenced, but most were acquitted. The Croatian leadership which
ordered this “ethnic cleansing operation” in Tesla’ hometown, were never held
accountable…

…And what to say for the “Serb-hating” residents of Gospic- When the accused local
Croatian war criminals from the city who took part in 1991 massacre of Serbs: Stjepan
Grandic, Ivica Rozic and Milan Canic, were taken in custody in 2001, those residents staged
riot in Gospic attempting to seize the police vans, which were transporting them to the jail.
They failed. This riot was repeated in second biggest Croatian city Split and in the capital

15 The Croatian capital

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Zagreb, this time hundreds of thousands of Croats took the streets, justifying killing of
Serbian civilians, and demanding the release of the bloody war criminals…

Promoters and executors of genocidal policy towards Jews and Serbs are
receiving the highest national decorations in modern Croatia, while one Nikola
Tesla is considered just “a burden”

…But, if you believe that such frantic nationalism is limited only to the Croatian mob on
the streets and some local hard-core nationalist authority, like in the case of Gospic
municipality, then you are again dead wrong. Modern Croats are very proud of their
“Fathers of the Homeland”, starting with Ante Starcevic, Ante Pavelic and (for the time
being) ending with Franjo Tudjman. What a better proof than the fact that in the Republic of
Croatia, today at least 203 streets and city squares are named after the “Father of Ustasha
Ideology” Ante Starcevic (data from 2008), including some schools. Which, according to
Wikipedia, makes him “the sixth most common person eponym of streets in the country”…

…If you naively believed, that such institutionalization of Starcevic “Nazi style
nationalism”16 in Croatia would be satisfying for Croatian right wing government, you are
wrong again. Before we proceed with this analysis, we are talking here about Croatian
“scientist” who described, in his academic books, Jews and Serbs as “animal breeds
without any morality” that shouldn’t be allowed to participate in public life. In normal

“The Ustasha ideological system was chiefly based on the traditional pure Croatian nationalism of
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Ante Starčević.” – Dirk DeKlein

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country such “historical figure” would be outlawed, or at least censored. Not in EU

member state Croatia-

In April 1995, the same year when he ordered the ethnic cleansing of two Serbian Krajinas
(Slavonia & Lika), Croatian president and “Father of the Homeland” general Franjo
Tudjman introduced the National decoration “Order of Ante Starcevic”. Can you imagine,
one of the highest national decorations named after the person, whose highest academic
achievement was branding Jews and Serbs as “animal breeds”.

Furthermore, I guess in accordance with the name of the “national decoration”, in

following years “Order of Ante Starcevic” was awarded to (at least five) accused Croatian
war criminals: Gojko Susak, Ante Gotovina, Branimir Glavas, Vladimir Seks and Ivan
Vekic…

If international community cares about Tesla legacy, then it should take some
concrete steps and remove Croatian jurisdiction over Tesla Memorial site…If?

From this analysis, should be obvious that Croatian nationalists, especially the ones that are in
charge of today Croatian government, couldn’t care less about Serb Tesla, and furthermore-
they as long as he is recognized as Serb, are more than happy to blow up all his monuments,
and to dig out of the mass grave (behind his birth home) the bones of his relatives…

…But, if somehow these admirers of Starcevic’ Ustasha ideology, would be able to (even with the
touch of some mysterious magician wand) turn him into a Croat- and to erase all the Cyrillic letters
from the Serbian graves they did not manage yet to destroy, including the Cyrillic letters from
the Tesla’ birth certificate-

I believe that in this case Croatian nationalists would be ready to celebrate Tesla as “Number
One- Greatest Croat”; which doesn’t mean that they would give up on their Ustasha ideologists:
Starcevic, Pavelic, Tudjman, or any future Fuhrer, for that matter…

…As the old Latin saying goes: “lupus pilum mutat, non mentem” - the wolf changes its coat,
not its disposition…

Written by Miodrag Novakovic

February 18 th 2018, Vancouver

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