Lithuanian nationalists push the ideology of beasts that were destroying each other with guillotine: nationalism is an invention of the French Revolution

 "'The 1860s was a defining decade' in the annals of nationalism. The ideology invented by revolutionary France swept all the new nation-states: Germany, Italy, and Japan. America also experienced a nationalist binge in the 1890s." [1]

1. Reichs, From First to Third. Joffe, Josef. 
Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 17 July 2023: A.15.