There was an agreement between Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill regarding the division of Southeast Europe into spheres of influence. That deal is also known as the "Percentage Agreement" or the "Naughty Document".
On October 9, 1944, Churchill and Stalin met at the Moscow Conference. Churchill, as he himself reports, wrote on a piece of paper the proposal that spheres of influence should be divided into percentages as follows:
Romania: 90 percent Russia; the other 10 percent.
Greece: 90% UK, in agreement with the US; 10% Russia.
Yugoslavia: 50-50.
Bulgaria: 75% Russia; the other 25 percent.
Stalin approved the bargain, ticking off the British Prime Minister's paper with a blue pencil.
During negotiations the following days, on 10 and 11 October 1944, between Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, and Vyacheslav Molotov, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Churchill's proposed percentages were modified in the case of Bulgaria and Hungary, with the Union Soviet gaining, in the two countries, an influence of 80%. In the end, it is known, all the countries of Eastern Europe, with the exception of Greece, completely entered the sphere of Soviet influence, and communist dictatorial regimes were established in them, with all the known disastrous consequences.

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