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Aidas Šlečkus, then a first-year student at the Lithuanian Police Academy, says he was involved in protecting the Supreme Council and ensuring public order in the crowd at its entrances.
“It is already difficult to remember chronologically the events of 30 years ago. However, the impression will never be erased from memory when thousands of people who gathered in the Supreme Council greeted us with applause when they came to patrol; our uniforms already had certain signs of an independent Lithuanian state, ”says A. Šlečkus.
In the first days of January, the cadets of the Lithuanian Police Academy were taken on patrol, then they settled in the Supreme Council: they had to sleep on chairs in the meeting room, there was no shortage of food, and people brought so many sandwiches, sweets, coffee, tea, hot soups. On one fateful night, Aidas Šlečkus was in the premises of the Supreme Council.
“I did not feel any fear, no doubt, I knew where I was, why I was there and what I would have to do if necessary. The parents were really more afraid: the media did not exist like now, which allowed relatives to call by landline for some time ”, Aidas Šlečkus shares in his memories.
United volunteers
Jonas Cibulskis, who has been working at the Klaipėda County LSC Criminal Investigation Service, has been counting since 1988. He was a member of the emerging volunteer forces of the independent Lithuanian national defense.
They performed various tasks long before the memorable events of January began. To be successful, they had to be extremely neutral and inventively disguised.
“We drove old” ziguli “or other indistinguishable cars. Once we put a few bags of potatoes in an old freight bus – when we stop checking, we say – we don’t know anything, we only transport potatoes from town”, – now says Jonas Cibulskis with a smile.
Information, usually written on inconspicuous pieces of paper, was passed “hand in hand”; those covert groups were all over the web until the data traveled to headquarters, and was transmitted several times as unnoticed as possible.
“On one fateful night, we observed the situation and the movement of transport in Vilnius. When the attack started, we knew what was going on and we were ready for anything. However, we have been instructed to continue to monitor and pass on the necessary knowledge promptly. I didn’t feel scared, but I said goodbye to closed thoughts, ”Jonas Cibulskis shared his emotions 30 years ago.
Born on January 13.
Lina Klibavičienė, who works at the Klaipėda County LSC Service Department, on January 13. celebrating his jubilee birthday. The family then lived in Jonava. The woman remembers that the birthday party was modest, in the circle of loved ones. When he finished washing the dishes, he saw the latest report from Eglė Bučelytė on Lithuanian television.
“There were no doubts or considerations: we wrapped the sleeping five-year-old son in a blanket, took him with his grandparents and with my husband immediately left for the radio station near Kaunas, Sitkūnai. There were already a lot of people there. We didn’t know much about what was happening in Vilnius: there were no mobile phones, the radios that were next to us, like us, were not collected. We stood until dawn. Winter was cold, but if it was cold, I don’t remember. The charming atmosphere is memorable, everyone is very concentrated, united, ready for anything, even, I would say, a kind of euphoria that they can contribute to the defense of the Fatherland ”, Lina Klibavičienė recalls the events of the memorable night.
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