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Why did soviet premier leonid brezhnev invite president richard nixon to visit mmoscow?

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He feared that a U.S. and China alliance would isolate the soviet union

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brezhnec feared that a us alliance with china would isolate the soviet union afraid the U.S and China would form a coalition that would go against soviet Russia.
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