Two years after the poet's death, on 31 October 1985, in the small village of Ozora, where he had spent part of his childhood, a newly built school was named after him. The school was opened with an address given by György Aczél, a member of the Political Committee of the HSWP, and the Party's cultural overlord. It was in this address that, for the first time, someone representing the official political line claimed in public that the poem was in fact about "the indisputable historical calling of socialism—the fight for the totality of freedom and against all kinds of dictatorship" and it was not up to Illyés, nor the poem, that in 1956 it "had become a weapon in the hands of those triggering and inciting violent emotions and of harbingers of hopelessness."
This strange story, with its morbid and grotesque turns and spanning thirty years, is nothing else than that of a show trial that had been initiated against a poem. The suspicion of antedating the poem was probably for the purpose of distracting attention from what the chief cultural commissar tried to "rehabilitate" the poem with in Ozora in 1985—instead of bringing the totality of freedom in fulfilling its historic mission,"existing socialism" had brought into history the totality of oppression.