Soviet reality for more than 70 years has brought to the language life, in addition to numerous lexemes, a large number of idioms and periphrases, many of which had a pronounced "ideological premium". They were called Sovietisms, which were understood as units that represented "a kind of chronicle of a new life", capturing "new social relations, stages of our struggle, creative work and victories of the Soviet people" (I. F. Protchenko). We have attempted to describe idioms and periphrases-Sovietisms-from the point of view of modern language consciousness. The source for the analysis is the data of the Explanatory Dictionary of the Language of the Soviet Department by V. M. Mokienko and T. G. Nikitina (St. Petersburg, 1998), from which we extracted about 200 ambiguous ideologemes with a worldview attitude, created mainly by official propaganda, its harsh pressure and implemented through journalism. The purpose of such phraseological units is to form an ideologized socialist picture of the world with their help. Their official journalistic background "should have been perceived as the norm of language, and heroism and monumentalism as the norm of life "(Mokienko V. M., Nikitina T. G. Decree. Dictionary). Thematically, these phrases can be presented in the following form: The Party is our helmsman; Komsomol and Pioneria are the children of the party; It is good to live in a Soviet country; The work of Soviet people; The Struggle for peace and socialist ideology; Decaying capitalism; The Machinations of the enemies of peace, etc. page 57 The following definition of idioms is generally accepted: These are units that have the property that their values are indecomposable into the values of units that are isolated in their formal structure, and, of course, that the meaning of the whole is irreducible to the values of parts in a given structural and semantic connection (V. N. Telia). These include: guiding star-about the Marxist-Leninist theory, the program of the CPSU; gr ... Read more