 During the 1920s, thousands of Mennonite refugees fled the Soviet Union, many of them arriving in the Steinbach area.Moscow Road, which had been pejoratively named to refer to the Russlander Mennonites who lived there, was later renamed McKenzie Avenue after the Prime Minister who had allowed them to come to Canada as refugees.In 1941, the Steinbach Credit Union opened, partially in response to the difficulty in obtaining loans from the larger banks.