This article examines the policy of restricting the rights of citizens carried out by the Soviet government in 1918-1936, the emergence of a stratum of "deprived" as a result of this policy and how their inclusion in the list of "deprived" affected their social status in society is analyzed on the example of a densely populated area of the Uzbek SSR Ferghana Valley. For them, this meant not only climbing the career ladder, but also the deprivation of social opportunities.Restrictions on all aspects of the life of the "deprived" - had a negative impact on participation in public life, military service, social security and benefits. With the loss of the right to vote, people have lost hope for promotion and a change in their lives for the better. In the Soviet state in the mid-1920s and 1930s, those who were deprived of the right to vote were considered "second-class" people.