South Korean soldiers questioning a Vietnamese woman, 1970s

It’s a m44 pattern mosin, and has no scope. Mosins are not very good marksmanship rifles, especially a short carbine without a scope. The Vietnamese got a lot of those rifles from China and Russia, not everyone with a bolt action was a sniper.

Additionally, if one looks at the bolt handle, you can see it hasn't been modified with the angle to accommodate a scope. I do wonder if the person meant that she was acting as a sniper, in that she was taking pot shots at troops, open sights, but not actively trying to take a position or defend one. Take some pot shots, hope you don't get caught, and then things get real when the ROK troops show up in a bad mood.

Generally-speaking, how frequent were long-range engagements? I imagine most ambushes in Vietnam were going to be pretty damn close range. Fire a shot, then run like hell.

They massacred civilians everywhere they went. Korea, Vietnam, Palestine. The ROK Army was basically a mercenary army back during the Cold War. They'd go anywhere, do any despicable thing and justify it all as "

The South Koreans were horrific in Vietnam. So much so that they apologized to Vietnam because they felt it was hypocritical to criticize the Japanese government for the war crimes in WWII whilst ignoring what they did in Vietnam. Ironically, it seems like VN doesn't care, they have the mindset that they won anyway and a strong relationship with modern day South Korea would benefit both their countries.

It's not that they don't care, they are merely letting it be water under the bridge for now. There was a huge stink a few years back in Vietnam when there was a social network fad where people could use a filter and put ROK soldier uniforms over their clothes, basically a viral marketing thing for a military-themed SK movie.

But ultimately, they're practical. They know their worth as a geopolitical pawn, and they fight their way into the top, always have. And being a geopolitical pawn of a farther hegemon is better than a neighboring one. The Vietnam-Cambodian war and the Vietnam-Chinese Border war come to mind. Right now they're trying to tip toe the line between China and US-led 

Why do people never bring up the atrocities the Vietcong did?

Because they were dirt poor, begged the US to recognise Vietnam as an independent nation and got told “fuck you, you’re more value to us as a slave to France”. So they fought desperately and viciously against all the intruders in their house and anybody who was trying to help them, same as we all would. There are some very murky cases of ends and means all through the Cold War, but Vietnam isn’t one of them

Edit:Just read your complete comment on your personal connection to the conflict. Very difficult to have removed opinion of the event when it’s so close, but well nobody can realistically deny horrible things happened on both sides, those are the realities and forces unleashed once you enter a full-scale war. When men start to kill, all kinds of morality questions get warped and skewed. Personally, I have more of a beef with how things in Vietnam have developed since, with a similar rampant consumerism and classist nature close to what they have in China today. But looking at the aspect of deciding to go hell for leather towards independence, I can’t deny that I respect it. Even though a lot of people did get hurt in the process on all sides. The real crux is that when independence and self determination come at the cost of comfort and deep sacrifice, Radicalism and zealotry are kind of the only tools you can rely on to keep going

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