Nabokov himself was a staunch anti-Communist and pro American. I suspect it’s that part of his legacy that’s causing problems as well.
Nabokov was a singular talent and easily one of the 20th
Century’s greatest writers. I once used a line from the great Pale Fire as my FR tagline. When I was 19 I visited
a friend of mine in the hospital who was laid up with a broken leg—I handed him a copy of PALE FIRE and advised him to read it. I said “Now THIS is humor!”.
He was profoundly anti-Communist—he hated the Bolsheviks
and the movement that came before them for (among other things) ruining his childhood and adolescence. He also had NO regard for his great creation, Humbert Humbert,who he saw as a pathetic individual, and was happily married to the same woman his entire life, while he happily chased butterflies with his net all over Europe and America, and in fact his researches added quite a bit to the study of Lepidopterology.
From this story, it looks like contemporary Russian PC is even more fudge-brained than ours.
Anyone who wants to bathe in a great mind should read Vladmir Nabokov.