<prompt> Bhala okuqhubekayo kwalesi sigaba - Ngo-1948, eneminyaka engamashumi amabili, uShevardnadze wajoyina i-Georgian Communist Party GCP ne-Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPSU. Wakhuphuka kancane kancane phakathi kwamaKomsomol aseGeorgia futhi ngemva kokukhonza isikhathi esithile njengoNobhala Wesibili, waba uNobhala Wokuqala. Ngesikhathi sakhe njengoNobhala Wokuqala weKomsomol, uShevardnadze wahlangana noMikhail Gorbachev okokuqala ngqa. UShevardnadze wathi wadumala ngesimiso sezombangazwe saseSoviet ngemva Kwenkulumo Eyimfihlo kaNikita Khrushchev eMhlanganweni Wama-20 we-CPSU. Njengabantu abaningi baseSoviet, uShevardnadze wethuswa ubugebengu obabenziwa uJoseph Stalin, nendlela uhulumeni waseSoviet asabela ngayo ekubhikishweni kwabantu baseGeorgia ngo-1956  <response>: wamethusa nakakhulu. Wakhishwa esikhundleni ngo-1961 yiPolitburo yeqembu lamaKhomanisi aseGeorgia ngemuva kokucasula isikhulu esiphakeme. 