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By the time Putin and Sobchak emerged from their bunker the next morning, the coup was over. The hard-liners’ bid to take power had been defeated. In Moscow, elite special units of the KGB had refused orders to fire on the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin, by then the elected leader of the Russian republic, had amassed tens of thousands of supporters against the coup’s bid to roll back the freedoms of Gorbachev’s reforms. What remained of the legitimacy of the Communist Party was in tatters. The leaders of Russia’s new democracy were ready to step up. Whatever his motives, Putin had helped them be in a position to do so.
All the while, true to his KGB training, Putin had reflected everyone’s views back to them like a mirror: first those of his new so-called democratic master, and then those of the old-guard establishment he worked with too. ‘He would change his colours so fast you could never tell who he really was,’ said Sedelmayer.[108]
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