Churchill at the Kremlin

9th October 1944: Churchill's account of his Secret "Percentages" Agreement, seeking to divide up influence in Eastern Europe

Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin, in the company of Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov (on right behind Stalin), inspecting the Red Army guard of honour on Moscow airport, 9 October 1944. The officer on the far right is General Ivan Serov, the infamous Deputy Head of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.

The Allies now believed that the end of the…