 Complete the following phrase:  In 1948 at the age of twenty, Shevardnadze joined the Georgian Communist Party GCP and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPSU. He rose steadily through the ranks of the Georgian Komsomol and after serving a term as Second Secretary, he became its First Secretary. During his Komsomol First Secretaryship, Shevardnadze met Mikhail Gorbachev for his first time. Shevardnadze said he grew disillusioned with the Soviet political system following Nikita Khrushchevs Secret Speech to the 