Wouldn't he rather count as the opposite - someone who while being forced to pay lip service to Soviet ideals extricated his country from their influence to some degree?
There's this Finnish historian, Hannu Rautkallio, who seems to think that Kekkonen was nothing short of a traitorous KGB agent, who ruled Finland on behalf of the Russians.


(If I can exaggerate a bit.)
Anyway, Kekkonen surely used his good relations with the Soviet leaders against his enemies at home. And one of biggest reasons he was supported so widely by different parties and by the majority of people, probably his most important political capital, was that he was man the Soviet leaders trusted. Or even,
the man the Soviet leaders trusted.
That gave him huge advandage against.. Well, everyone. And that's why he was President of the Republic for 25 years.