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What were Vladimir Nabokov's political views?
In 1942 Vladimir Nabokov declared: Democracy is humanity at its best ... it is the natural condition of every man ever since the human mind became conscious.“
Did Vladimir Nabokov write about politics?
Yes, in Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov proudly recounted his father's campaigns against despotism and staunch opposition to capital punishment.
Were Vladimir Nabokov's views controversial?
Vladimir Nabokov's lectures at Cornell University, as collected in Lectures on Literature, reveal his controversial ideas concerning art.
Did Vladimir Nabokov's views ever land him in trouble?
In 2010, Kitsch magazine, a student publication at Cornell, published a piece that focused on student reflections on his lectures and also explored Vladimir Nabokov's long relationship with Playboy.

Question: Where did he go when he left the Soviet Union?
Self-contained rewrite: Where did Vladimir Nabokov go when he left the Soviet Union?