In a part of his biography where he wrote about his life when he was six years old or younger, Tesla wrote that he was so inspired by Serbian national poetry that he used to spend hours playing that he killed the enemies of Serbs (https://www.rastko.rs/istorija/tesla...biography.html):
If I remember rightly, I then took to carving swords from pieces of furniture which I could conveniently obtain. At that time I was under the sway of the Serbian national poetry and full of admiration for the feats of the heroes. I used to spend hours in mowing down my enemies in the form of corn-stalks which ruined the crops and netted me several spankings from my mother.
Tesla's friends in America were proponents of the ideology of Greater Serbia (https://archive.org/details/teslamanoutoftim00chen):
It pleased Tesla that the son of King Alexander, whom he had admired, was now the monarch. His closest friends in the New York/Washington Slavic communities remained those of "Great Serbian" outlook attached to the Yugoslav Embassy under Ambassador Fotić.
In order to curb Croat separationism within the kingdom of Yugoslavia, in 1929 the Serbian King Alexander established a dictatorship and outlawed political parties. When he was assassinated (by a Croat according to the biography linked above), Tesla wrote a tribute to him where he wrote the following (https://www.rastko.rs/rastko/delo/10890):
The Croatians and Slovenes were never in a position to fight for their independence. It was the Serbians who fought the battles for freedom and the price of liberty was paid in Serbian blood. All true Croatians and Slovenes remember that gratefully. They also know that the Serbians have an unequaled aptitude and experience in warfare and are best qualified to direct the forces of the country in a crisis.
Hrvatska
Originally Posted by Faklon
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I know it's hilarious, just wanted to let you guys know
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