The European Union is trying to take Tesla away from the Serbs and give it to the Croats
Serbia sent a note of protest to the European Commissioner for Culture, Education and Youth Maria Gabriel due to the fact that the famous Serbian scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla was listed as Croatian on the official EU website.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic told the Serbian TV channel Pink about this, a correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
“I have repeatedly said that if Nikola Tesla had remained to live in Yugoslavia during the Second World War, he would have ended his days in the Jasenovac concentration camp (created by the Croatian Ustasha for Serbs, Jews and Gypsies - ed.),” he said in broadcast on the Dacic TV channel.
In turn, Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Vladan Vukosavljevic expressed hope that the EU institutions will apologize to the Serbian public and the “unintentional mistake” will be promptly corrected.
Earlier it became known that in the children's educational section of the EU website, which talks about outstanding Europeans, on the page dedicated to Croatia it is indicated that Nikola Tesla was a “famous Croatian scientist.” It also says that it was an inventor of Croatian origin who created a ballpoint pen in the USA, which is also not true.
Nikola Tesla was born in the village of Smilyan in the vicinity of Gospić on the territory of Austria-Hungary - now these lands belong to Croatia. But his parents, Milutin Tesla and Djuka (nee Mandich), were Serbs, and his father was an Orthodox priest, and his mother was the daughter of an Orthodox priest. At the same time, Tesla never lived in the territory of a state called “Croatia”, but as a scientist and inventor was established in the USA, so until now it was customary to call him an American of Serbian origin.
The ancestral house of the Tesla family in Smilyan and the church where the father of the future scientist served.
At the same time, several years ago Croatia began a campaign to assign itself a world-famous scientist solely on the basis of his place of birth. And, it seems, during her six-month presidency of the EU she achieved some success in this, as can be judged by the children’s section of the EU website. However, according to Balkan media, not only Serbia, but also World Wide Web users from other countries responded negatively to such an outright historical falsification.
“My daughter is in primary school, and after using the EU website for educational purposes, she told me that the great Serbian scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla was presented there as a Croat,” Athens resident Stelios Stylianidis wrote to the resource administration. – However, it is common knowledge that Nikola Tesla's father was a Serbian Orthodox priest and that his family was subsequently murdered by the Nazi Independent Croatian Power.
Can anyone then question and dispute the Greek origins of Dominicos Theodokopoulos - El Greco, who spent most of his life outside modern Greece? “I believe that the European cultural space cannot be characterized by such false messages as this, and we all have an obligation to preserve and respect our common European values and principles.”
English version :: Read in English The European Union is trying to take Tesla away from the Serbs and give it to the Croats