Ajan Suunta (Direction of Time) was the newspaper of the Finnish Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) that ran from 1932 to 1944.

[4] Ajan Suunta was also deeply hostile to Jews, published anti-Semitic caricatures and connected Judaism to everything the IKL stood against like Marxism, freemasonry and liberalism.

As the Jews in Finland mostly spoke either Russian or Swedish, the anti-Swedishness, Russophobia and antisemitism all complemented one another, leading Ajan Suunta to rail against "Swede-kikes" and "Russkie-loving Judeo-internationale".

As IKL was close allies with the Estonian Vaps Movement, Ajan Suunta published critical articles about Konstantin Päts' Estonia.

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.