 The organization was particularly popular in the conservative city of Tiraspol.Looking at the electoral ads run in the Tiraspol Dnestrovskaia Pravda reveals that of the 40 people who ran ads in that newspaper between January and March 1990, 22 (55 percent) mentioned membership of the OSTK, 21 (95 percent) of which won their seats.Of the 18 that did not mention the OSTK in their ads, only 3 (16 percent) won their seats.