Chrystia Freeland - Wikipedia
她在哈佛大学获得俄罗斯历史和文学文学学士学位。 [4]在哈佛期间，她作为交换生前往苏联学习乌克兰语，尽管她已经精通乌克兰语。在那里，她引起了克格勃的注意，克格勃给她贴上了代号“弗里达”的标签，而苏联报纸则抨击她是外国人，因为她与乌克兰激进分子的接触而干涉了他们的内政。克格勃监视了弗里兰并窃听了她的电话，并记录了这位年轻的加拿大活动家向乌克兰的联系人提供金钱、视频和录音设备以及个人电脑。她利用加拿大驻莫斯科大使馆的一名外交官将材料装在一个秘密的外交邮袋中寄往国外，与外国记者合作报道苏联的生活故事，并组织游行和集会以吸引西方国家的关注和支持。 1989 年 3 月从伦敦旅行回来后，弗里兰被拒绝重返苏联。 [23]
到她在乌克兰的激进主义结束时，弗里兰已成为克格勃高级别案例研究的主题，该研究旨在探讨一个坚定的个人可能对苏联造成多大的伤害。在 2021 年接受《环球邮报》采访时，情报部门的一名前成员称弗里兰为“一个了不起的人”，并形容她“博学、善于交际、坚持不懈，在实现目标方面富有创造力”。 [23]
她于 1993 年以罗德学者的身份在牛津大学圣安东尼学院获得斯拉夫研究硕士学位。[4][24]
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian history and literature from Harvard University.[4] During her time at Harvard, she visited the Soviet Union as an exchange student to study Ukrainian, although she was already fluent in the language. While there she attracted the attention of the KGB, which tagged her with the code name "Frida", and Soviet newspapers, who attacked her as a foreigner meddling in their internal affairs over her contacts with Ukrainian activists. The KGB surveilled Freeland and tapped her phone calls, and documented the young Canadian activist delivering money, video and audio recording equipment, and a personal computer to contacts in Ukraine. She used a diplomat at the Canadian embassy in Moscow to send material abroad in a secret diplomatic pouch, worked with foreign journalists on stories about life in the Soviet Union, and organised marches and rallies to attract attention and support from western countries. On return from a trip to London in March 1989, Freeland was denied re-entry to the USSR.[23]
By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union. In a 2021 interview with the Globe and Mail, one former member of the intelligence service called Freeland as "a remarkable individual", and described her as “erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals”.[23]
She received her Master of Studies degree in Slavonic studies from the University of Oxford's St Antony's College as a Rhodes Scholar in 1993.[4][24]
