Mongol empire

Was There a Mongol Yoke?

This is a contemporary depiction of the Battle of Kulikovo (1380) between Mongols and Russians. Can you tell which is which?
TBR Senior researcher Matthew Raphael Johnson again challenges conventional wisdom on the Russian empire. In Russia itself, it is rare to find textbooks or historians who believe that the Mongols occupied Russia in the high middle ages. In the US, that has not even begun to penetrate.
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-140803/TS-1102921.mp3