When I was very young, I would hear about the "Iron Curtain" and I thought it was a gigantic metal drapery between countries and no one could go through it.
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- When I was very young, I believed that houses were carved out of one gigantic block of wood.— tinmanjones
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi - I used to think that we lived in a gigantic snow globe.Anon
- I used to think that up in outer space the sun was a gigantic baby that never grew up like in Teletubbies.— WeirdButProud