 He was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia on 6 July 1945.Today Španac is best remembered in popular songs of Yugoslav Rock Group Riblja Čorba (comparing anti-Milosevic revolt with the revolt Španac expressed in 1941 ), and has a number of schools and a hospital in Valjevo named after him.Before the 1990s, the Yugoslav regime often cited him as a model influence, regularly celebrated his life by dedicating monuments and public venues to the "Warrior of the Spanish Revolution".