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the actual "Mongol conquerors of Russia" never existed. The yoke theory was created by the
German court historians of the new Russian dynasty
- the Romanovs. It has served the end of justifying the Romanovs'
claims for the throne and demonising their longtime adversaries - the Horde, or the professional
Russian army, which remained fiercely loyal to the old Russian
dynasty, deposed and finally destroyed by the Romanovs as a result
of the conspiracy. The savage Mongol and Tartar invaders and torturers
of the Russian land that we read about in history textbooks were the protectors of the
state in reality - and ethnic Slavs for the most part. Small
wonder historians still cannot find a single trace of the mythical
Mongol capital - no such capital ever existed anywhere near the Gobi Desert.