The writer and philosopher Sir Roger Scruton was awarded the Knight's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. The medal was presented to him by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who emphasized, that "Professor Scruton has always stood on the side of truth and helped in the fight against communism. In June this year, Prof. Scruton was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by President Andrzej Duda the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, First Class, for his support of the democratic changes in Poland, and in 2016 he received from President Andrzej Duda and Marshal of the Sejm Marek Kuchciński the "Courage and Credibility" medal, awarded by the Chapter of the President Lech Kaczyński Award for The medal is awarded by the Chapter of the President Lech Kaczyński Award for activities that contribute to the image of Poland and its citizens in the world. In communist times During the communist era, Professor Scruton and his foundation supported, among others, the Przemyśl During the communist era, Prof. Scruton and his foundation supported, among others, the Przemyśl opposition group concentrated around the underground magazine "Strych Cultural Attic". This group fascinated the professor. In the introduction to the reprint "Strych Kulturalny" (published in 2019, by the National Museum of the Przemysl Region) he wrote: "By the 1980s, the Solidarity period was already a memory, and martial law reduced Poland to a kind of somnambulistic silence. I traveled in looking for small groups of people who wanted to discuss, learn, ask questions, and recapture at least some of the intellectual life that once flourished in Poland... And then I stumbled upon Przemysl. Thanks to the diligent work of Marek Matraszek we learned about the society of citizens in this old and once Galician city, who published an underground magazine, the Cultural Attic, and who met, not like our friends from the Czech Republic, in some basement or boiler room underground, but on top of buildings, as if they didn't care who could see them. Their discussion group was described as an attic, a place under the roof, and when I met them I found myself in an open society of of normal, petty bourgeois people who were determined to live, paint, write and discuss, as if the Party was nothing more than a stream of of dirty water flowing in the sewage below. At their head was Marek Kuchcinski, a former student of art history who lived outside the system and was an ardent believer culture as a liberation of the spirit and opposition to the totalitarian order. Writers, painters and teachers gathered around him and it was thanks to him I was able to organize a series of visits by Western intellectuals to discuss in these attics the most important issues of the day. Things quickly began to change, but what remained in me was the image of Przemyśl as a haven of civil society in a bleak socialist state. It was place determined to preserve its identity as a city, a culture, and a way of lifestyle..."

In 2019, Sir Roger Scruton was Special guest of the 4th Summit of the Presidents of the Parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe, which took place on 4-5 June 2019, in Warsaw, Poland. Also invited to this meeting was a several dozen group of dissidents and members of the democratic opposition from across the region - "people free, without whom there would be not only today's freedom, but even civilization" - as they were referred to during the Summit. Roger Scruton worked with them. Roger Scruton was working with them. In his speech he spoke of "the legacy of communism and what it it means to us today." How the intellectual world of the West has been infatuated with communism and socialist orthodoxy since the 1970s. How the intellectual world in the West was infatuated with communism and socialist orthodoxy conservative values was under attack. He said that "the first real experience of intellectual freedom intellectual" It was connected with his and his friends' visits behind the The Iron Curtain, where in practice, during independent meetings and discussions in Poland Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, they experienced what the Soviet system was like.

            Today challenges are similar: defending universal values such as freedom independence and identity of nations, which strengthens attitudes of loyalty that build civil societies. National community is the key to the continuance of of democracy. According to Scruton, the main task for contemporaries is "...to reconcile two pressing needs: affirmation of national sovereignty and the need to conform to universal standards of citizenship. These are the two great gifts of the European political heritage and they are interdependent...".