No he didn t Read carefully the text above and when you have finished read it again You can t use one single courteous personal note to shade his opinion made in public Tesla considered Yugoslavia his homeland and was against any kind of secession of Croatia from it Tesla Tribute to King Alexander According to his wish in the time WWII was waged in his conquered Yugoslavian homeland the sounds of Tamo Daleko song played on his funeral with the leading repeating verses There s my village there s Serbia And please stop insulting and deleting his Serbian reference Tesla wouldn t like it If I were happy enough to realize at least some of my ideas they would benefit the whole mankind If my hopes were to be fulfilled my sweetest thought would be that it had been the work of a Serb