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 ===== Background ===== ===== Background =====
  
-Polish and Ukrainian historical records seem to demonstrate that Freeland's grandfather aligned with the [[Nazi Party|Nazis]] during [[World War II]], and successfully relocated to [[canada:Alberta]] after evading [[Poland|Polish]] capture in 1948.((Pike, C. (2018, February 2). //Canada’s Nazi Problem.// The Saker. https://web.archive.org/web/20211222101640/http://thesaker.is/canadas-nazi-problem/)) ((Helmer, J. (2017, June 18). //MICHAEL CHOMIAK VOLUNTEERED FOR HITLER BEFORE UKRAINE WAS INVADED AND WAS HUNTED BY THE POLISH POLICE UNTIL THE 1980s – CHRYSTIA FREELAND’S FAMILY LIE GROWS BIGGER AND BLACKER.// Dances with Bears. https://archive.ph/6RX7T)) ((Helmer, J. (2017, January 19). //VICTIM OR AGGRESSOR – CHRYSTIA FREELAND’S FAMILY RECORD FOR NAZI WAR PROFITEERING, AND MURDER OF THE CRACOW JEWS.// Dances with Bears. https://archive.ph/gHLHd)) ((Ukrainica in Canada. (2019, January 29). //State Archival Service of Ukraine.// https://archive.ph/c9R0o)) ((Helmer, J. (2017, January 22). //Canada’s New Foreign Minister Lying About Family’s Ukrainian Nazi Past.// Vigile Québec. https://archive.ph/YmAsL))+Polish and Ukrainian historical records seem to demonstrate that Freeland's grandfather aligned with the [[Nazi Party|Nazis]] during [[World War II]], and successfully relocated to the Province of [[canada:Alberta]] after evading [[Poland|Polish]] capture in 1948.((Pike, C. (2018, February 2). //Canada’s Nazi Problem.// The Saker. https://web.archive.org/web/20211222101640/http://thesaker.is/canadas-nazi-problem/)) ((Helmer, J. (2017, June 18). //MICHAEL CHOMIAK VOLUNTEERED FOR HITLER BEFORE UKRAINE WAS INVADED AND WAS HUNTED BY THE POLISH POLICE UNTIL THE 1980s – CHRYSTIA FREELAND’S FAMILY LIE GROWS BIGGER AND BLACKER.// Dances with Bears. https://archive.ph/6RX7T)) ((Helmer, J. (2017, January 19). //VICTIM OR AGGRESSOR – CHRYSTIA FREELAND’S FAMILY RECORD FOR NAZI WAR PROFITEERING, AND MURDER OF THE CRACOW JEWS.// Dances with Bears. https://archive.ph/gHLHd)) ((Ukrainica in Canada. (2019, January 29). //State Archival Service of Ukraine.// https://archive.ph/c9R0o)) ((Helmer, J. (2017, January 22). //Canada’s New Foreign Minister Lying About Family’s Ukrainian Nazi Past.// Vigile Québec. https://archive.ph/YmAsL))
  
-===== Education =====+==== Education ====
  
 Freeland attended [[Harvard University]], then moved to the [[University of Oxford]] as a [[rhodes_scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]].  Freeland attended [[Harvard University]], then moved to the [[University of Oxford]] as a [[rhodes_scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]]. 
  
 +==== Exchange to Ukraine ====
  
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 +While a student at [[Harvard University]] the 1980's, Freeland participated in a university exchange program that brought her to live in [[Ukraine:Kiev]], [[Ukraine]] for a time.((Bilefsky, D. (2022, February 25). //A Canadian leader with Ukrainian roots puts Putin in the ranks of “reviled European dictators.”// The New York Times. https://archive.ph/6Svfk)) While there, she was involved in 1988 and 1989 in the Ukrainian independence movement, and was tailed by the [[KGB]]. She was given the codename "Frida", and described as a "well-known troublemaker".((Retson, D. (1989, May 20). //Student “glasnost” chilly.// Edmonton Journal, 14. https://archive.ph/VCnMo/))
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 +Descriptions of Freeland's activities in [[Russia]] and Ukraine seem to indicate she was performing foreign intelligence duties. She allegedly evaded interception from the KGB by sending material out of Ukraine via a diplomatic pouch at the Canadian embassy in [[Russia:Moscow]]. “I am aware that my work with pro-democracy and environmental activists invoked the ire of the Soviet KGB. I remember being the target of smear campaigns in the Soviet press,” she told the [[Globe and Mail]] in October 2021.((Miles, S. (2021, October 11). //KGB archives show how Chrystia Freeland drew the ire (and respect) of Soviet intelligence services.// The Globe and Mail. https://archive.ph/VnGts))
 ===== Career ===== ===== Career =====
  
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