The Haunted Land about the Soviet block countries of Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Germany, is a very mixed read on each of the discussed countries. The Czech response to Soviet authority was very passive, and as a result is very slow reading. Poland took a mixed response due to their leader, Wojciech Jaruzelski, who took a moderate and controversial approach to Russian leaders. He was a puppet of Russia, but makes the argument that it was better for Poland to accept martial law rather than a hard crackdown by the Soviet Union. It is not until the discussion of East Germany that the book becomes an interesting read. This third of the book primarily revolves around a study of several individuals demonstrating the details and how extensive the Stasi was in citizen spying and the detail records that were kept. The spying of friends, neighbors, and family impacted the psyche of the whole nation. Spying was so extensive that individuals are not able to reconcile and understanding one another causing a psychological rift on an individual and national level. She also covers security guards who killed the last individual in an attempt to go over the Berlin Wall.The overage coverage on East Germany is very well done making the book an excellent read for these chapters.
I found Rosenberg’s frequent use of I very distracting, and found her writing style somewhat lacking. I would rate the book as a five star if it was only about East Germany. My recommendation is bypass the Czechoslovakia and Poland chapters.
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