At the first parade in 1945, the color squad of the First Polish Army was the only foreign contingent invited to the ceremony. In 1985, veterans of the Polish People's Army (Polish 1st Infantry Division) and the Czechoslovak People's Army (Czechoslovak 1st Corps) took part in the veterans procession of the parade.[47] In 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev invited foreign troops to the parade for the first time since the fall of the USSR, and included military units countries allied with the Soviet Union during World War II.