Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - He kaihanga kohatu a Saarinen i uru atu ki te peka o te uniana kaimahi o te rohe i te tau 1934. I te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao i whawhai ia mo nga hoia Finnish. I muri mai ka mohiotia a Saarinen ko ia tetahi o nga kaiarahi Communist rongonui i waho o te Eastern Bloc. I whakaarohia ia hei Eurocommunist he whakaaro ruarua mo te Soviet Union. I whakahe a Saarinen i te whakaekenga o Czechoslovakia i te tau 1968
I ngā tau 1970, i ātete ia ki ngā mahi a ngā kaihautū Stalinist pēnei i a Taisto Sinisalo ki te whakapiki i te mana o te Soviet i Finland.