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From WW2 memoirs of Soviet citizens:
"I’ll never forget how the war began. I’ve never experienced such fear and panic as on the first day or even during the first hours of that war,” said tankman Ivan Khokhlov, then serving in Kaunas: "A stroke after 4am the German planes began bombing us. We were asleep, only the sentries were on guard. Everyone jumped up and started rushing around, screaming, nothing could be seen. Planes are bombing, everything’s on fire. Nearly all our vehicles were without wheels, standing on blocks. The guys rushed to get the wheels on... but there weren’t enough... There were only three useable vehicles. All of us who’d survived, together with the commander, packed into the body of the trucks and drove east.”