Soviet Army postcard from 1964 with my wife's cousin

Custom-postcards were popular with the people of the Soviet Union, while cameras were for the most part available to them, developing film, a messy and painstaking process, had to be done at home.

That's particulary difficult to do for army soldiers. Which is why Mrs. Marathon Pundit's cousin, Ivars Rimša, sent a postcard from Moscow to his family in Latvia in 1964.

The message says "Greetings from the Army!"

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