Hallo Katitof, I'll try and be nice here, please reread my post, especially the "I dont care about Brits part". I havent played with or against Brits so I am not able to comment on the matter.
I can however very much comment on the Soviet vs OH sniper dynamics, and yes, OH sniper absolutely positively needs a higher ROF to be worth jack since he has to contend with 6 man cheap squads.
Higher rof yes, but not the current level.
Try to get yourself a key for brit preview and you'll understand it better why current ost sniper rof is unacceptable for balance.
Just imagine that soviets suddenly can build ost sniper with its RoF and use it against grens. Pleasent?
Well, this is what USF currently have to endure with their weapon teams.
USF with squad sizes of 5 and 4 already backs up the point and you already can see the impact of ost sniper, focusing solely on soviets is basically putting on blinders and ignoring already present, inconvenient argument. We have a faction with less entities in squads, we can't ignore it and soviet sniper wasn't buffed just because OKW have 5 and 6 men squads.
Moreover ost sniper was never really an optimal unit against soviets, mortar always triumphed it.
And last but not least, soviet sniper viability vs volks and pfussiliers more then proves that ost sniper rof nerf will not kill the unit at all.
(see? if you're polite, then I don't have any problems to be this way as well)