I once asked my dad what "Soviet Union" is; he replied that it was a horrible country where you couldn't say anything, because you'd be taken to jail immediately.
For a long time, I have been shocked by such an evil country where you had to be silent all the time.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- As a kid every time I heard a person say "it's about time" I always replied "so what about it?"— Eli the Kid
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- i used to believe that 'overseas' was a countryAnon
- I used to think each country was it's own planet.— erin clements