The various views to the sovietness and the opposite tendencies of desovietization and resovietization are observed in different spheres of modern Russian society, including in language. This article is devoted to the consideration of the (anti-) sovietness in modern Russian discourse and meta-discourse about modern Russian language. In the modern Russian language there is a clear tendency to deviate from the previous linguistic norms, and the substandard units widely intruded in the literary language. This article analyzes the desovietization shifts in the system of functional styles, language play and the parodic use of sovietisms as a precedent text. As the desovietization of modern Russian language and the violation of norms consistently increases, the protection of language purity is called for to a great extent. Under puristic approach toward Russian language inviolability of linguistic norms and ideality of language of the past are emphasized, and any language innovations are rejected. Especially the aspiration to the ideal language and non-recognition of language variation remind of the Soviet puristic ideology. Soviet puristic ideology was aimed at compliance of spontaneous oral speech with standardized written language and thereby at the unification of the mass language use.