Prussia.
On May 09, 2015, the People's Daily Strong Nation Forum exclusively interviewed Chen Shiqiang, a professor at the National Defense University's Department of Battle Education and Research, to give netizens a preview of the parade's points of interest and the many highlights of the parade. Professor Chen Shiqiang said that the Russian military parade "goose step" from the French, while our military "front step" from the Prussian drill code.
Chen Shiqiang told reporters that the Russian military parade pace used to be called "goose step" and is now called the "positive step". This originated in the French army during the Napoleonic period, since then "goose step" has become the standard infantry formation called, parade kicks "goose step" gradually evolved into "front step". As Napoleon's armies swept across Europe, the concept of the "goose-step" spread rapidly throughout Europe.
But when Napoleon was finally defeated and exiled, the French march was canceled as a result of Napoleon's "legacy". But the march was carried forward in many other European countries, especially in Prussia, France's greatest enemy at the time, which made it the focus of its own soldiers' formation training. Later, when the goose-step spread around the world, many people thought it was a Prussian invention, not realizing that it was originally a pride of the French.
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Historical Development of the goose step:
The goose step is a kind of marching pace of the army or other organizations, which is called goose_ stapping in English. It is characterized by a high legged forward stride like a goose. This English term was first used in 1806. However, goose_stapping is not the original name of goose_striding. The original name came from the German word for "parade march" (Paradeschritt).
It originated as a folk dance in medieval Europe, characterized by a 90-degree kick with the thigh straight forward (traces of which can still be seen in today's Irish kicking dance). From the seventeenth century, it was popularized in Prussia. In the mid-eighteenth century, Friedrich the Great was the first to adopt the marching steps of this folk dance in the Prussian army parade, officially known as the march.
Since then, under the spread of Prussian (and later German) military instructors, the marching step has gradually spread to other countries, including Chile, Argentina, and other South American countries. in the 1920s, Hitler was the first to implement the Prussian army's marching step in the Nazi Party's stormtroopers. When Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, he popularized the march as the official footwork of the Nazi Party Guard and the Wehrmacht.
In 1937, during a visit to Berlin, Mussolini admired Nazi Germany's march, and on his return decided, as a step toward Italy's convergence with Germany, to officially implement the march in the Italian Army and the Italian Fascist Party. The thousands of people in the square march due to the neat and tidy action strong and powerful, magnificent, and therefore has a strong shock and show off the effect. 1950 Chinese People's Liberation Army for the first time to use the square march through Tiananmen Square.
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