What If Soviet beat mujahedeen in Afghanistan

Would the Soviet still be around to this day or still fall on 1991
Depends how the economic situation in the Soviet Union developes in an ongoing Cold War race. Soviet Afghanistan War lasted from 1979 to 1989 OTL( with some special forces still operating after that). Is Gorbatschow still president ATL in 1985 ? Have we Perestroika and Glasnost ? Also there was potential for unrest, seperatism and ethnic clashes in different Soviet Republics. The Armenia and Azeri Rebublics basically went to war against each other OTL.
 
Beating the Afghan rebels? That would be *easy*: invade and occupy Pakistan therefore cutting off their support. Done.

Riiight. Because America will totally appreciate the USSR invading two countries, one of which is in the US sphere of influence and also has warm water ports that cant be easily blockaded. And the Soviets totally wont overextended themselves in the process.
 
They did, communist government outlived the Soviet Union by a year until Russia stop selling them oil

Exactly this. Even with American and Pakistani aid, ISI and CIA were initially expecting the Muj to be rendered irrelevant as a threat by around 1986ish. Even once the Soviets pulled out, the Battle of Jalalabad showed how secure the Communist government was with Soviet material support.
 
It would have been better for Afghanistan, despite the late regime's crimes. It may be impolitic to say so, but, you see the results of fighting Communism through fundamentalist Islam.
 
Would the Soviet still be around to this day or still fall on 1991
I suspect that it won't make much, if any, difference in regards to this.

The interesting question would be if Afghanistan itself breaks up based on ethnic lines after the end of the Cold War in this TL. After all, like the Soviet Union, Afghanistan was certainly a multi-ethnic state.
 
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