Sheldon, that's incredible. Yeah, I know! They called it the greatest thing since the Communist party.

太难以置信了，谢尔顿。 是啊，我知道! 他们把这件事称为建党以来最伟大的事情。

But as Stalin appointed his supporters to the communist party's higher echelons, he basically created and established a patron-client network with himself at the very top.

但是随着斯大林把自己的支持者部署到了党的高级梯队，他基本上织好了一个亲信网络，他自己就在最核心的位置上。