Brandenburg Gate role in 2018 European Athletics Championships. It is also the usual finish line of the Berlin Marathon. A Soviet flag flew from a flagpole atop the gate from 1945 until 1957, when it was replaced by an East German flag. Since the reunification of Germany, the flag and the pole have been removed. During the 1953 riots in East Berlin the Soviet flag was torn off by West Germans. In 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it to prevent him looking into East Berlin. In the 1980s, decrying the
Gate City High School endorsed their right to do so. Gate City High School Gate City High School is a public high school in Gate City, Virginia. The school was built in 1956. The school employs about 33 teachers and the student to teacher ratio is 23:1. Gate City offers a variety of sports programs. The school colors are Blue and White and the mascot is the Blue Devil, which comes from a sheriff who left town claiming that it was filled with nothing but "Yankee Devils." Gate City also competes in Soccer, Track and Field, Cross Country, Forensics, Speech and Drama, and Academic