"Partially correct but oddly enough none of the above occurred in Great Britain - wonder why that was Jom?"

Leaving aside the name calling, its an interesting question, and one which a sociologist might answer. You were very careful to write Great Britain, because it clearly did happen in Ireland. So why not in Great Britain. The British, or more specifically the English, have always been a subservient nation, at least as far back as the 11th century. With the one brief interregnum of the civil war and the commonwealth, they have accepted the status quo, and their own position of subservience. Why then, when the Russians and the Irish were throwing off the shackles, did they not do the same?

At least part of the answer is in the manipulation of public opinion, which contrary to some views did not begin in the 1980s. The elites successfully used their stranglehold on the media of the day, which was newspapers to portray first the Germans, then the Russians, as a greater enemy than themselves. But thats not the whole answer, as to why the public of the time fell for it, a Sociologist's or Psychologist's opinion is called for.