People who lived in countries like Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, that no longer exist, What was it like to see your country breakup?

We emigrated from the USSR about a year before it broke up, so technically I’m a Soviet. What makes everything more complicated is that we’re from Crimea, which was recently annexed by Russia. I opened a new bank account a while back and one of the details I had to fill is where I’m originally from, it was an electronic for with a menu. It was a very weird experience