My testimony is modest, just as my contribution to the defense of the TV tower was, yet it is impossible not to speak about it when such lies are pouring out of Moscow...
...The majority of the people were around the tower. Finding a big space, I grabbed the hands of the people standing there. There was such noise - the rattling of machine gun fire, the breaking of glass, the moaning of people, and the firing of tanks. Glancing up, you could see from where splinters of glass could fall on the people. We didn't disperse. Some sort of force began to push us forward - maybe people were moving away from the falling glass. I was hardly able to stand - there wasn't anywhere to put my feet. I turned to look behind me, and saw a tank nearing about two or three people away. I swiftly stepped back and someone fell on me. Two women and one man fell down in the path of the tank's tracks. They noticed the tank too late. The tank ran them over.
Lithuania, 1991.01.13 : documents, testimonies, comments. - Vilnius : State Publishing Center, 1992, p. 118.