"The situation was similar to the one Sartre had experienced in connection with his own resistance novel. Sartre had remarked at the time that, in a bourgeois age, the writer was the object of universal mistrust, as literature was essentially subversive. 'The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists... who regard the writer as suspect.'"

Ref. (the orwellfoundation.com hyperlink):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318842

Though, as also noted in the article, he was the last Finnish writer to be officially censored by the state.