[1] In the aftermath of the Finnish Civil War, from which Finland emerged as an independent, democratic republic, the magazine valorized the victorious Whites as patriots and heroes.
[1] The weekly aims to write in-depth articles about current topics and to provide opinion-shaping editorials.
[8] Diary excerpts of Finnish novelist Antti Tuuri about his visit to Germany between 1992 and 1995 were published in Suomen Kuvalehti.
In the Jyviä ja akanoita ("wheat and chaff") column, various humorous misprints and grammatical goofs from other magazines and newspapers are printed.
In March 1997 two journalists from Suomen Kuvalehti were arrested in Diyarbakır, Turkey, while reporting about the Kurdish movement in the region.