Declaration on Liberated Europe

On the morning of February 9 the Americans presented a short document entitled Declaration on Liberated Europe. First brought up for discussion by Stalin that afternoon and approved the following day, it was a peculiar document, open to different interpretations. No piece of paper approved by the Big Three became more prominent immediately after the conference or in the course of the long and frosty Cold War, and received less attention during the actual deliberations. The declaration set forth principles to which all three powers agreed to adhere in their treatment of the countries liberated from the Nazis, which, at the time of signing, the British were openly violating in Greece and the Soviets in Poland.

—Serhii Plokhy, Yalta, (London: Penguin, 2010), 263.