I was listening to Paul Kennedy's interview with Anne Applebaum where she claimed that the famine ended with the harvest of 1933, proof that it was an artificial creation.

But they were planting grain in Ukraine, and it seemed like they would have been reliant on the USSR to ship them grain seed. What would stop the hungry peasantry from eating the seeds that were delivered right to their door (or even covertly grinding them into flour)?

And at a time when people were resorting to cannibalism, why were they not be eating germinating wheat sprouts?

So in essence my question is, if the famine only ended in the harvest, how were the Ukranian peasants made to wait so long?