I'm not even sure that Russian people were ever concerned about this. I don't believe there was anybody in Russia who thought that Russians were going to kill each other. So unless the population joined them, which didn't happen, there was nothing there. But once the Russian military was on the ground with a bunch of civilians, the fact that the civilians treated them like it wasn't a coup may have actually stopped the coup.

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