After Rokhlin's murder, the movement took a more radical nationalist and anti-Semitic stance under the leadership of generals Viktor Ilyukhin and Albert Makashov, but after its failure in the 1999 legislative election, it went into decline and by the end of the 2010s had become a full satellite of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

The meeting was also attended by former Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, former KGB heads Vladimir Kryuchkov and Leonid Shebarshin, State Duma deputies Valentin Varennikov, Viktor Ilyukhin, Albert Makashov, former Soviet Airborne Forces commander Vladislav Achalov, former Black Sea Fleet commander Eduard Baltin [ru], chairman of the Russian Union of Veterans of the Armed Forces Grigory Yashkin, chairman of the "Union of Officers" movement Stanislav Terekhov [ru], Don Cossacks ataman Nikolai Kozitsyn [ru] and chairman of the All-Russian Movement "Stalin" Omar Begov.

On 20 April 1999, Viktor Ilyukhin announced that the Russian Party of Vladimir Miloserdov, the Soyuz movement of Georgy Tikhonov, and the Geydar Dzhemal's Islamic Committee of Russia had expressed a desire to join the DPA-led electoral bloc.

[5][6] The DPA abandoned the idea of ​​creating joint blocs with the CPRF and the ROS, but in September 1999 they signed a declaration on cooperation of the national patriotic forces in the election campaign.

The leaders of the DPA list in the 1999 election were Viktor Ilyukhin, Albert Makashov and the rector of the Baltic State Technical University, Yuri Savelyev [ru].

[4] In 2005, the movement took part in a rally where its representatives declared that the army's money, with the help of "certain officials," was flowing to "overseas and domestic magnates of one well-known nationality" and called for a fight to complete victory "against these Satanists of the 21st century.

The CPRF was concerned why it took the ambulance so long to arrive, and announced an independent investigation since Ilyukhin appeared healthy and never complained of heart problems before his sudden death.

[13][14][15] Under the leadership of Lev Rokhlin, the DPA was considered a radical pro-communist "great imperial nationalist" organization, while at the same time avoiding ethnic nationalism and xenophobia.

In the fall of 1998, Albert Makashov made several aggressive anti-Semitic statements, and in February 1999 he demonstratively proposed changing the name of the DPA to DPZh ("Movement Against the Zhids").