Question: Paralympic weightlifter Mario Hochberg was born in a socialist state located where?
Context: 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). Albania ( , ; Albanian: "Shqipëri/Shqipëria" ; Gheg Albanian: "Shqipni/Shqipnia, Shqypni/Shqypnia" ), officially the People's Socialist Republic of Albania (), was a socialist state that ruled Albania from 1946 to its fall in 1992.  From 1946 to 1976 it was known as the People's Republic of Albania, and from 1944 to 1946 as the Democratic Government of Albania.  Throughout this period the country had a reputation for its Stalinist style of state administration dominated by Enver Hoxha and the Party of Labour of Albania and for policies stressing national unity and self-reliance.  Travel and visa restrictions made Albania one of the most difficult countries to visit or to travel from.  In 1967, it declared itself the world's first atheist state.  It was the only Warsaw Pact member to formally withdraw from the alliance before 1990, an action occasioned by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.  The first multi-party elections in Socialist Albania took place on 31 March 1991 – the communists gained a majority in an interim government and the first parliamentary elections were held on 22 March 1992.  The People's Socialist Republic was officially dissolved on 28 November 1998 upon the adoption of the new Constitution of Albania. Joy Onaolapo was a Nigerian champion Paralympic weightlifter (2012).  She won the gold medal in the 52kg powerlifting category at the 2012 London games. Anthony Peddle (born 11 February 1971) was a British Paralympic weightlifter.  Peddle competed in seven Summer Paralympic Games a record number for a British athlete.  He won gold at the 2000 Games in Sydney and a bronze medal in both the 1992 and 1996 Games. Ramon (Ray) Gary Epstein, OAM (born 14 October 1959) is an Australian Paralympic weightlifter and powerlifting coach.  He represented Australia in weightlifting at the 1988 Seoul and 1992 Barcelona Paralympics and was Head Coach of the Australian Paralympic powerlifting team between 2003 and 2013. 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. The “Five Goods Movement” (五好活动 "wuhao huodong") was a political campaign carried out in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from 1956-1858 that reflected the PRC State’s vision of where housewives and “family dependents” (家属 "jiashu") belonged within China’s emerging socialist order.  The movement began in earnest in early 1956, when the All-China Women's Federation in tandem with local branches of the Women’s Federation began promoting “Five Goods” for urban housewives to aspire to.  These “five goods” intended to promote socialist development primarily through the education of children and support of male workers.  The five tenets of the campaign were to encourage housewives to: promote mutual assistance between neighborhood households, arrange domestic life well, educate children well, encourage and support the production, work, and study of (male) spouses, and to study well themselves.  In this case “study” referred to the political study of government issued works intended to promote socialist and communist thought.  This model of the ideal housewife reflected PRC visions of how a seemingly "non-productive" member of socialist society could contribute to the building of a socialist state. The People's Republic of Benin (French: "République populaire du Bénin" ) was a socialist state located in the Gulf of Guinea on the African continent, which would become present-day Benin.  The People's Republic was established on 30 November 1975, after the 1972 coup d'état in the Republic of Dahomey.  It effectively lasted until 1 March 1990, with the adoption of a new constitution, and the abolition of Marxism-Leninism in the nation in 1989. 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. 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.
Answer: Central Europe