The 'Napkin Agreement'

Issue 14

December 2019

The 'Napkin Agreement' (also known as the 'Percentages Agreement' was a secret informal agreement between British prime minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during the Fourth Moscow Conference in October 1944. It gave the percentage division of control over Eastern European countries, dividing them into spheres of influence.

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All those magical places, awaiting to be seen. All those breathtaking moments, awaiting to be lived.

Bar-Tabac at Saint-Jean

Isabel Hernandez-Gil Crespo

Peaches

Daphne C. Van Schaick

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The 'Napkin Agreement'

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