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I have no experience with actually publishing stuff, but IMHO, probably the best way to have your story permanently free is to have it in Smashwords, and thence to iTunes (or directly at iTunes and separately at Smashwords, as some backlist authors seem to do), and freebie it there.
I've noticed over the past few years that author/small-publisher-released things that are free at iTunes seem to have a far, far greater chance of being price-matched at Amazon in multiple countries, even more so than ones that have been free at Smashwords for some time, or in other outlets like Kobo & B&N.
It may take a while, though, and sometimes things never seem to drop to free outside of Amazon US/UK when being matched (which is why I suspect that having things internationally free at iTunes where people around the world can specifically "Report a Lower Price" for their locale in the separate easily-checked country stores, as compared to Kobo, which serves up a page based on the user's IP or account address, and Smashwords, where it's non-obvious that things are internationally free all the time, makes a bit of a difference).
However, this is solely anecdotally from long-term observation of vagaries of the KDP slushpile, and YMMV, as may the actual experiences of your fellow authors who've actually done it.
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