The Groovy Stalin Drug Den versus the Heil Hitler Hash House: today's TERRIBLE advice

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Susan asks

I'm plotting a romance novel and I'm trying to think of something disastrous happening between my two leads. I've already had a bratty ex accosted them. What do?

My answer

How about ... ah, I've got a few ideas:

Let's make them both hardcore authoritarian Stalinists. Like, super-DUPER-Stalinists. The kind of jackbooted assholes that Stalin himsel…