What is the difference between a Medical Power of Attorney and a Health Care Surrogate? The main difference between a medical power of attorney and a healthcare surrogate is that you. appoint a medical power of attorney representative to make healthcare decisions for you when. you become unable to make them for yourself. You can specify what healthcare decisions your. medical power of attorney can make.
The Iron Curtain Divided Europe and Berlin. During the time I was in Germany, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain.. Intense Communism controlled the lives of people in the countries to the east of the iron curtain, contrasted with freedom in countries to the west.The above map shows a proposed tourist trail along where the Iron Curtain once stood.t the end of World War II, Berlin (Germany's capital city) was divided into four zones. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French zones. East Berlin was the Soviet Union's zone. West Berlin became a popular way for people behind the iron curtain to escape communism.
Although not well received at the time, as the Cold War strengthened the phrase gained popularity as a short-hand reference to the division of Europe. The Iron Curtain served to keep people in and information out, and the metaphor eventually enjoyed wide acceptance in the West. A variant, the Bamboo Curtain, was coined in reference to Communist China. As the standoff between the Free World and the countries of the Iron and Bamboo curtains eased, with the West's victory in the Cold War, the term fell out of any but historical usage.