Translated (with the assistance of GoogleTranslator)
and edited by Dannysuling
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One early morning I was awakened by insistent loud knocking at my front door. I arose, only half-awake and yawning, put on my bathrobe, and went to open the door. Unfortunately, I forgot to look through the peephole first. As the door opened I saw two women dressed in black standing directly in front of me. Their faces were hidden by masks!
Stunned by this sight, I stood motionless in the doorway. Before I could come to my senses and slam the door shut, one of them pushed me in the chest, hard, so that I stumbled back into my apartment. My back landed on the floor of the hallway. I managed to roll over and tried to scramble to my feet, but was immediately crushed to the floor by a woman jumping onto my back. She pressed my hands to the floor with her knees, while her own hands, clad in black leather gloves, clasped my mouth, depriving me of the last opportunity for rescue by calling my neighbors for help.
Her partner did not remain idle. Quickly ensuring that no one else had appeared on the landing, she closed and locked the front door. Then she took out several silk scarves from the bag she had brought with her. One at a time, she twisted my hands behind my back, then professionally tied them with one of the scarves. Next, crumpling up a smaller scarf, she brought it to my mouth.
"Open...." she said quietly but firmly.
The palms of the first assailant who had been clutching my mouth suddenly let go. But they stayed at my cheeks, ready to close on my mouth again at my first attempt to scream. Still, I had no intention of letting myself be gagged, and pressed my lips tightly together.
"Don't be stupid! That's not going to help you," said the woman holding the scarf.
The woman sitting on her back and trapping my hands and arms covered my mouth again...and my nose...and squeezed hard. Now I couldn't breathe at all. I tried tugging my head to the side to dislodge her hands, but that didn't work. Just as I was beginning to suffocate, she suddenly let go of my mouth again, but not my nose! I had no choice--I had to breathe. Opening my mouth, I began to gasp, taking in air in greedy gulps, and the woman in front of me immediately pushed the scarf into my open mouth. The fingers of the one sitting on top then let go of my nose, but lay over my mouth, not giving me the opportunity to spit out the gag, as her companion tore off pieces from a roll of duct tape, which she then glued crosswise tightly over my mouth. Any further attempts on my part to get rid of the gag were doomed to failure.
"So," said the woman in front of me as she put away the roll of unused tape, "let's go for a walk."
The two intruders lifted me to my feet and put jeans and sneakers on. They quickly produced a jacket that they draped over me to cover my arms. It had a large hood that they positioned over my head, pulling the drawstrings shut. Clearly, no one would notice that my hands were bound behind me or that my mouth was gagged.
After checking that it was quiet on the stairs, they had me walk between them, quickly took me downstairs, and forced me into a minibus idling right at the entrance to the building. When they pushed me in I tumbled to the floor of the cabin. I was quickly blindfolded, and a moment later they tossed what felt like blankets on top of me. I was in complete darkness.