Walls make for very powerful symbols, as many devout Jews, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roger Waters can attest.

Today, of course, marks the 2oth anniversary of the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the most visible symbol of the Soviet Union’s freedom not-loving ways. The memories of that moment are thick on the ground, and many in Berlin are reliving that night when they were first able to cross deadly no-man’s land between East and West.

And so, to mark this highly significant occasion, we offer you John Cougar Mellancamp:

Personally, I think too little attention has been given to the role played by Cougar’s dancing in the fall of the Soviet Union. After all, people in East Berlin could barely buy jeans at all, never mind jeans that tight…

(Berlin Wall juggler photo by Yann Forget, used under Creative Commons license.)