Ajan Suunta consistently caused problems for the authorities and censors both home and abroad. As IKL was close allies with the
Estonian
Vaps Movement,
Ajan Suunta published critical articles about
Konstantin Päts'
Estonia. For example, the following was published in 1933: "Estonia's government and center parties have sold themselves to the Marxists." As a response,
Ajan Suunta was banned in Estonia for two years. On 22 December 1936,
Ajan Suunta announced that 18 Estonian politicians, including ministers and leading politicians, had submitted a highly critical memorandum to Prime Minister
Konstantin Päts. Päts responded that if the memorandum was to be published, he would imprison all 18. The newspaper was finally banned for good after the
Moscow Armistice in 1944, a week and a half after the party itself.
Pavel Orlov, a political adviser to the
Allied Control Commission, had demanded that the Finnish government shut down the magazine immediately, and the newspaper's board was contacted. The printing presses were stopped voluntarily after the government warned that otherwise there might be force measures against the entire Finnish press. ==References==