republics with different ethnicities want to be independent, but Serbians did not want them go and carried out wars and ethnic cleansing, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Soviet Union was also similarly broken up. Fortunately, there was less blood shed and people like the current systems much better than the old one.
Soviet Union did support China a great deal, but China broke up with it (ungrateful?), paved the way for going the capitalist road today.