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". Even in 21st century he is remembered as a warrior, guerilla fighter and impulsive young idealist and not as a politically engaged person. He has universal appeal to most of political options in Serbia, and also to all the other ex-Yugoslav countries.