Hungary has a long history of grappling with high suicide rates, regardless of political changes. By 1926, the rate had surged to over 300 per one million people, a trend continuing from the 1960s onwards and consistently exceeding 400 after 1976. Research on suicide, with its rich tradition in Hungary, resumed after a hiatus due to Hungarian Stalinism. However, researchers faced a dilemma: they could raise questions more openly than their Soviet counterparts but had to provide answers within a certain ideological framework. Despite promises by the communist party to eradicate deviance by transforming social structures, political, social, and economic changes over decades only moderately affected suicide rates. Nonetheless, certain shifts were evident, such as the increasing contribution of rural suicides to overall statistics. My paper explores how these findings can be communicated within ideological frameworks while maintaining ideological premises. After 1945, the Communist Party pledged to eradicate deviance by reforming social structures. During investigations into social adjustment disorders, it was emphasized that studying deviance should not lead to socialism criticism. Contemporary sociological literature offers various approaches: 1) Socialism's transitional nature implies differing decreases in deviance patterns. 2) Rapid development necessitates socialism addressing lagging modernization. 3) Individual responsibility, exemplified by slow mentality shifts or excessive materialism, is pertinent. 4) Only in the 1980s did sociological researchers highlight the correlation between exclusion from modernization and suicide, along with perceived disparities.