Conceived as an underground political party, alternative to the CPSU. Operated in Odessa region and in the Moldavian SSR in 1964. Leader – mathematics teacher DRAGOSH Mykola Fedorovych. The organization included about 30 people, divided into "troikas". Mykola Tarnavsky, who worked in a printing house, stole type, and in February 1964 the DSS established an underground printing house in the village of Serpneve. They printed 1,500 copies of an "Appeal" in newspaper format on behalf of the DSS with criticism of CPSU policy and calls to create a democratic society. The newspaper was sent from various cities to other cities: Odessa, Chisinau, Sverdlovsk, Kiev, Gorky, Chelyabinsk, Petropavlovsk, Leningrad. The organization failed on its first case: student Mykola Kucheryanu gave his father in the village several copies of the "Appeal", and he sent them by mail to local authorities. Arrests took place in mid-May 1964 (M. DRAGOSH – 16.05).
19.09.1964 The Supreme Court of the Moldavian SSR sentenced 6 people under Art. 67 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the MSSR, 69 of the Criminal Code of the MSSR, Art. 81 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR: Dragosh M.F. (born 1932, Russian, son of a railwayman, higher education, teacher from the village of Serpneve, Tarutino district, Odessa region), Tarnavsky M.A. (born 1940, Ukrainian, secondary pedagogical education, carpenter, Kiev, 7 years), Cherdintsev I.A. (born 1938, Russian, incomplete higher education, teacher, Odessa region, 6.5 years), students of the Institute of Arts, Chisinau, Moldavians Postalaki V.V. (born 1934, 6 years), Chemirtan S.I. (born 1942, 6 years), Kucheryanu N.S. (born 1941, 5 years – taken into custody in the courtroom).
In 2010, Acting President of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu opened archives with materials about the persecution of dissidents, including the DSS case.
Compiled by Vasyl Ovsiyenko 9.12.2010. Kharkiv Human Rights Group.