Paratroopers got out. At first with iron sticks. They opened fire from one side. I had been in the army myself, and I thought that they were firing blanks. Someone shouted that people had fallen. One paratrooper rushed up to me and hit me with his gun, but I leaned forward and he hit my shoulder. The stench was terrible - he was drunk... Some correspondent, I think a foreigner, was filming. Two paratroopers ran Over, one hit him on the head, and the other grabbed his camera...
Then, when they began to shoot directly, one paratrooper rushed over to me, hit me, and shouted something like: „Uidi svoloč!" („Get out of here, bastard!") While falling, I caught hold of his helmet and ripped it off. He fired, and the bullets were going right into my legs.
Lithuania, 1991.01.13 : documents, testimonies, comments. - Vilnius : State Publishing Center, 1992, p. 248.