Four activists climbed up Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate on Monday using a lifting platform to unfurl a banner from the top reading "For democracy in Syria" and "Defend Rojava", according to police.

Soviet troops march past the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, May 20, 1945, while carrying a victory banner that was raised over the defeated German capitol at the end of World War II.

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