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ELI5: Why does the "Goose Stepping" Style of military marching seem to be universally adopted by dictatorships and non-democratic regimes? (Examples : Nazi Germany, North Korea, Communist China, the Russian Federation).
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It originally started in Prussia and quickly spread around Europe, however after it become popular with Mussolini it became mocked by the Allies and abandoned by Western Europe. It stayed in essentially the rest of the world however, not because it's an 'Evil Dictatorship' aesthetic choice but simply because it's a more traditional style of marching. Pakistan, India, Poland, Mexico and various other sufficiently 'democratic' states use the goose step. It's also not uniform, in North Korea for example it isn't an orthodox goose step but a cross between that and a sort of running jump.