After the communist takeover of 1948 the land around Beckov was collectivised: private fields were merged into a single co-operative farm, and the families who had worked them became its employees. Fewer and fewer people earned their living in the village at all. Instead they commuted — to the factories of Nové Mesto nad Váhom and Stará Turá, to Trenčín, later to the works along the main road — which is the pattern of almost every village in this valley across those forty years. The ruin above them was declared a national cultural monument in 1970 and slowly made safe, but it stayed a ruin, and the village stayed a village.Po komunistickom prevrate roku 1948 pôdu okolo Beckova skolektivizovali: súkromné polia zlúčili do jedného družstva a z rodín, ktoré na nich hospodárili, sa stali jeho zamestnanci. V samotnej obci si zarábalo na živobytie čoraz menej ľudí. Chodili za prácou inam — do závodov v Novom Meste nad Váhom a Starej Turej, do Trenčína, neskôr do prevádzok pri hlavnej ceste —, a presne takto vyzerali tie štyri desaťročia takmer v každej obci tejto doliny. Zrúcaninu nad nimi vyhlásili roku 1970 za národnú kultúrnu pamiatku a pomaly ju zabezpečovali, no zrúcaninou zostala — a dedina zostala dedinou.
