What If?: Afghanistan Turn Commie,what's next?

Lets assume that Nick Gorby died because *insert death cause* (and replaced with a more competent,savior-esque one),And the Soviet aggression on afghanistan is successful,they turns Afghanistan into Afghan SSR......
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What will happened next?
 
It will be a running sore for the Soviet Union. The Afghan people are too independent, too traditional and too deeply religious to tolerate a secular communist government trying to impose it's will over the country. You will have endless revolt.
 
Lets assume that Nick Gorby died because *insert death cause* (and replaced with a more competent,savior-esque one),And the Soviet aggression on afghanistan is successful,they turns Afghanistan into Afghan SSR......
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What will happened next?

Well, Soviet Union during the 80s was already well on the wall of its terminal decline, so an Afghan SSR and the heavy burden that would come with it (endless fights and battles with Afghans) would only speed the decline of the USSR....it would be a pyrrhic victory afterall.
 
Afghanistan would never become an SSR. Ever. I don't know where the rational for that came from.

However, if you truly wish to keep a communist government in power, all you have to do is stop the Soviet coup which initiated the Soviet invasion.

The Soviets were not happy with the Premier of Afghanistan at the time, Nur Muhammed Taraki, who was the leader of the more independent faction of the PDPA, the Khalaq faction. The Soviets were not at all happy with him in power, so, with Soviet assistance, Amin had him assassinated.

Edit: And the Soviets were on no way on a terminal decline. A decline, yes, but the collapse of the Soviet Union was in no way impending, or imminent. The collapse of the Soviet Union was an event which in reality was completely determined by a continued number of unlucky incidents.
 
Minus the Mongols, have anyone ever really managed to subjugate the Afgans as I'm coming up with nothing?
 
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