Editing Finlandization (section)

=== Censorship ===
Between 1944 and 1946, the Soviet part of the allied control commission demanded that Finnish public libraries should remove from circulation more than 1,700 books that were deemed anti-Soviet, and bookstores were given catalogs of banned books.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ekholm |first=Kai |year=2001 |title=Political Censorship in Finnish Libraries in 1944–1946 |journal=Libraries & Culture |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=51–57 |doi=10.1353/lac.2001.0008|s2cid=152952804 }}</ref><ref>Mäkinen, Ilkka (2001). [http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/kirjasto/oppimiskeskus/verkkoaineisto/inf/makinen.pdf "The golden age of Finnish public libraries: institutional, structural and ideological background since the 1960s"]. p. 131</ref> The [[Valtion elokuvatarkastamo|Finnish Board of Film Classification]] likewise banned films that it considered to be anti-Soviet.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} Banned films included ''[[One, Two, Three]]'' (1961), directed by [[Billy Wilder]]; ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1962), directed by [[John Frankenheimer]]; ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (film)|One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]'' (1970), by Finnish director [[Caspar Wrede]]; and ''[[Born American]]'' (1986), by Finnish director [[Renny Harlin]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}}

The censorship never took the form of purging. Possession or use of anti-Soviet books was not banned, but the reprinting and distribution of such materials was prohibited. Especially in the realm of radio and television self-censorship, it was sometimes hard to tell whether the motivations were even political. For example, once a system of blacklisting recordings had been introduced, individual policy makers within the national broadcaster, [[Yle]]isradio, also utilized it to censor songs they deemed inappropriate for other reasons, such as some of those featuring sexual innuendo or references to alcohol.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}