The size is continental standard 6" x 4". Unmailable without a cover. This is an invitation to cast a vote in the upcoming elections to the local Soviets of People's Deputies. The obverse features the flag and state emblem of the Latvian SSR and the date of the elections. The verso has the same verbiage in Latvian and Russian. The Latvian part is inscribed with the name of the addressee, and the location of the voting site.

In excellent condition, just minuscule corner bumps.

Even though the language is friendly-neutral and you could choose not to go to cast your vote, this

The size is continental standard 6" x 4". Unmailable without a cover. This is an invitation to cast a vote in the upcoming elections to the local Soviets of People's Deputies. The obverse features the flag and state emblem of the Latvian SSR and the date of the elections. The verso has the same verbiage in Latvian and Russian. The Latvian part is inscribed with the name of the addressee, and the location of the voting site.

In excellent condition, just minuscule corner bumps.

Even though the language is friendly-neutral and you could choose not to go to cast your vote, this postcard is a summons more than an invitation. If you do not come to the voting site, a special team of two or three helpers would come to your home address with a portable voting urn and would be insistent enough for you to reconsider and drop your bulletin into the urn. You could cross out candidates' names, add your own candidates, it mattered not. Most people looked forward to the election day because foods would be laid out for sale right there, usually in the hallway leading to the voting room. Decades of the Soviet regime and pervasive shortages of food items made it an easy choice: get in, drop the ballot, buy a ring of sausage, some cottage cheese, milk, chocolates if you come early enough and they aren't sold out yet, and get out happy.
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