Valitut Palat is a monthly general-interest family magazine published in Helsinki, Finland.
[4] Eljas Erkko was instrumental in the establishment of the magazine, and his assistant Sirkka Ruotsalainen was the founding editor-in-chief.
[4] Its publisher is Oy Valitut Palat[5] which was part of Reader's Digest Inc.[6][7] The Club Internacional del Libro group (CIL Group) acquired the Oy Valitut Palat on 30 April 2013.
[12] During the Cold War period it functioned as a window for Finland to the West and was among the leading anti-communist publications in the country.
[4] The Finnish-Soviet Union Association claimed that both Valitut Palat and Det Bästa, Swedish edition of Reader's Digest, were two major anti-Soviet propaganda tools in Finland.