 While results were more one sided elsewhere, everywhere confusion abounded.Many governmental institutions—the police, public prosecutors, judges—remained loyal to the government in Chişinău; some enterprises or villages defected from one local soviet to another to end up on the right side; paramilitary men competed with police to provide law and order, and during 1991 began attempting to evict them from their former stations.Even in Tiraspol, consolidation was to take upwards of a year.