Stasiland offers a bleak view on society

The Stasi were masters of manipulation and they did everything they could to ensure they maintained their power. Anna has the opportunity of talking with people who worked for the Stasi and she found from them what strategies the Stasi used to control and manipulate their people. Apart from scaring them into submission and imprisoning the people who disagreed with them, the Stasi also used propaganda to make the people believe the other states wanted to hurt them and stop the country from progressing. While for many coming from outside this was a bogus statement, for the Germans who had no contact with the outside world it was a believable statement and many grew to hate the countries outside the Communist bloc.