question: Paralympic weightlifter Mario Hochberg was born in a socialist state located where?
answer: Central Europe
context: Title: Soviet Union
  Passage: The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, Russian: СССР), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.  Nominally a union of multiple equal national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized.  The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.  The Russian nation had constitutionally equal status among the many nations of the union but exerted de facto dominance in various respects.  Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata and Novosibirsk.  The Soviet Union was one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possessed the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.  It was a founding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, as well as a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the leading member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and the Warsaw Pact.
  Title: Barry Kalms
  Passage: Barry Kalms is an Australian Paralympic weightlifter and athlete.  At the 1980 Summer Paralympics he won a bronze medal in the Men's Weightlifting Lightweight 65 kg amputee division and competed in various athletics events (specifically high jump, long jump and the 100 m).
  Title: Mario Hochberg
  Passage: Mario Hochberg (born December 11, 1970 in Gotha, East Germany) was a Paralympic weightlifter for Germany.  His coach was Thomas Mersdorf and he is sports instructor and Physiotherapist head coach weightlifting in DBS.
  Title: East Germany
  Passage: East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: "Deutsche Demokratische Republik" ] , DDR), was a socialist state in Central Europe, during the Cold War period.  From 1949 to 1990, it administered the region of Germany that was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II—the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line.  The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin, but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.
citations: Mario Hochberg East Germany