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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.

Question: Did his views ever land him in trouble?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Vladimir Nabokov's views ever land him in trouble?